Alstonia scholaris(L.) R.Br.

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WFO wfo-0001257712 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alstonia scholaris, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 197297177
Alstonia scholaris, photographed by chiuluan
fig. b chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196777498
Alstonia scholaris, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184838376
Alstonia scholaris, photographed by S.MORE
fig. d S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174708906
Alstonia scholaris, photographed by S.MORE
fig. e S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174689311
Alstonia scholaris, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 126829613
Alstonia scholaris, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131252305
Alstonia scholaris, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 122741523

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Alstonia scholaris is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia China South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPakistanPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest HimalayaNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern Australia Andaman Is.Laccadive Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Alstonia scholaris, 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
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laccadive Is. LDV
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

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.

Flowering 47 in flower of 108 examined

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Alstonia scholaris observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 47 of 108 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Alstonia kurzii Hook.f.
  • Alstonia scholaris var. avae A.DC.
  • Alstonia scholaris var. blumei A.DC.
  • Alstonia scholaris var. velutina Monach.
  • Alstonia spectabilis Kurz
  • Echites pala Buch.-Ham. ex Spreng.
  • Echites scholaris L.
  • Pala scholaris (L.) Roberty

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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