Benkara malabarica(Lam.) Tirveng.

WFO wfo-0000324094 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, 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.

Benkara malabarica, photographed by Hopeland
fig. a Hopeland, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199313288
Benkara malabarica, photographed by Aravinth
fig. b Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59595653
Benkara malabarica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49139663
Benkara malabarica, photographed by Paulmathi Vinod
fig. d Paulmathi Vinod, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145551288
Benkara malabarica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49139674
Benkara malabarica, photographed by Hopeland
fig. f Hopeland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199313335
Benkara malabarica, photographed by Aravinth
fig. g Aravinth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59595659
Benkara malabarica, photographed by Hopeland
fig. h Hopeland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199313309

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Benkara malabarica is native: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka BangladeshIndiaMyanmarSri Lanka
Native distribution of Benkara malabarica, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL

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 15 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.

  • Benkara galia Raf.
  • Benkara pandacaki (J.F.Gmel.) M.R.Almeida
  • Canthium recurvum Wall.
  • Catunaregam malabarica (Lam.) Sivar.
  • Gardenia fragrans Roxb.
  • Gardenia pandacaki J.F.Gmel.
  • Griffithia fragrans (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
  • Oxyceros malabaricus (Lam.) Tirveng.
  • Posoqueria fragrans (Roxb.) J.Koenig ex Roxb.
  • Randia fragrans (Roxb.) Bedd.
  • Randia malabarica Lam.
  • Stylocoryna malabarica DC.
  • Stylocoryna pandaki DC.
  • Stylocoryna rheedei Kostel.
  • Xeromphis malabarica (Lam.) D.C.S.Raju

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.