Alangium salviifolium(L.f.) Wangerin

WFO wfo-0000937579 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alangium salviifolium, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-20 / obs. 117200140
Alangium salviifolium, photographed by Hopeland
fig. b Hopeland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113292978
Alangium salviifolium, photographed by P Jeganathan
fig. c P Jeganathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70394979
Alangium salviifolium, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. d Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157895569
Alangium salviifolium, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. e Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157895692
Alangium salviifolium, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. f Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / obs. 157895390
Alangium salviifolium, photographed by Geetha Ramaswami
fig. g Geetha Ramaswami, CC0 1.0 / obs. 46488491
Alangium salviifolium, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 164002714

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000608105
Filed as
Alangium salviifolium (L.f.) Wangerin
Det. by
De Wilde & Duyfjes
Collected
Perrotet, S.
Origin
IN
The sheet
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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Alangium salviifolium is native: Comoros, Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya KenyaTanzaniaBangladeshIndiaNepalPakistanSri LankaWest Himalaya Comoros
Native distribution of Alangium salviifolium, 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
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
West Himalaya WHM
Comoros COM AFRICA
Kenya KEN
Tanzania TAN

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 140 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.4 °C 15.4 °C 20.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 31.9 °C 37.3 °C 40.5 °C
Annual rainfall 780 mm 1,013 mm 2,472 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 24 mm 63 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 140 research-grade observations of Alangium salviifolium that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Alangium acuminatum Wight ex Steud.
  • Alangium decapetalum Lam.
  • Alangium lamarckii Thwaites
  • Alangium latifolium Miq. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Alangium mohillae Tul.
  • Alangium salviifolium subsp. decapetalum (Lam.) Wangerin
  • Alangium salviifolium subsp. salviifolium
  • Alangium sundanum var. miqueliana Kurz
  • Alangium tomentosum Lam.
  • Grewia salviifolia L.f.
  • Karangolum mohillae (Tul.) Kuntze
  • Karangolum salviifolium (L.f.) Kuntze

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.