Adenanthera microspermaTeijsm. & Binn.

WFO wfo-0000187373 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Adenanthera microsperma, photographed by Yj
fig. a Yj, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-30 / obs. 113686067
Adenanthera microsperma, photographed by Yj
fig. b Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113686059
Adenanthera microsperma, photographed by Yj
fig. c Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113686185
Adenanthera microsperma, photographed by Yj
fig. d Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113686201
Adenanthera microsperma, photographed by Yj
fig. e Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113686211
Adenanthera microsperma, photographed by Yj
fig. f Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113686220
Adenanthera microsperma, photographed by Yj
fig. g Yj, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113686274

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02650079
Filed as
Adenanthera microsperma Teijsm. & Binn.
Det. by
I. C. Nielsen 1991-01-01
Collected
Rowlands 1929-06-07
Origin
MM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Adenanthera microsperma is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanBorneoCambodiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Adenanthera microsperma, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adenanthera pavonina var. microsperma (Teijsm. & Binn.) I.C.Nielsen
  • Adenanthera tamarindifolia Pierre

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.