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Chinese yew

Taxus sumatrana (Miq.) de Laub.

Family
Taxaceae
Genus
Taxus

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Chinese yew: Botanical specimen in Quarryhill Botanical Garden, Glen Ellen, California, USA.
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (9)
Arabic
طقسوس سومطري
arz
طقسوس سومطرى
azb
سوماترا قاراچؤهرهسی
Bulgarian
Суматрански тис
Chinese
南洋紅豆杉, 南洋红豆杉, 紅杉, 紫杉, 臺灣紅豆杉, 蘇門答臘紅豆杉, 西雙版納粗榧, 赤柏松
English
Chinese yew, Taiwan yew
German
Chinesische Eibe, Sumatra-Eibe
Indonesian
Tampinur batu, Tampinur sulawesi
Norwegian Bokmål
Sumatrabarlind

Synonyms

  • Cephalotaxus celebica Warb.
  • Cephalotaxus mannii E.Pritz. ex Diels
  • Cephalotaxus sumatrana Miq.
  • Podocarpus celebicus Hemsl.
  • Taxus celebica (Warb.) H.L.Li
  • Taxus obscura Spjut
  • Taxus sumatrana subsp. celebica (Warb.) Silba
  • Taxus sumatrana subsp. obscura (Spjut) Silba
  • Taxus sumatrana subsp. rehderiana Silba

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.