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Prismatomeris javanica

Prismatomeris javanica
Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY 4.0

Prismatomeris javanica is a shrub in the coffee family, native to wet tropical forests of northern and western Sumatra and western Java. It is a wild forest species with little cultivation or horticultural documentation.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
N. & W. Sumatera to W. Jawa
Climate
wet tropical

About

Prismatomeris javanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub native to Indonesia. It was described in 1902, and recognised as a species in 1940.

Where it grows

Prismatomeris javanica is native to the wet tropical biome of Indonesia. It is present in northern and western Sumatra, and western Java.

Other Prismatomeris plants

Prismatomeris albidiflora · Prismatomeris beccariana · Prismatomeris borneensis · Prismatomeris brachypus · Prismatomeris filamentosa · Prismatomeris fragrans · Prismatomeris glabra · Prismatomeris griffithii · Prismatomeris khoonmengiana · Prismatomeris kinabaluensis · Prismatomeris memecyloides · Prismatomeris mollis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Prismatomeris javanica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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