Butea monosperma(Lam.) Kuntze

Bengal kino

WFO wfo-0000184561 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Butea monosperma, photographed by S.MORE
fig. a S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-06 / obs. 174687313
Butea monosperma, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. b T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182159393
Butea monosperma, photographed by Rohit
fig. c Rohit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202113418
Butea monosperma, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135440374
Butea monosperma, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135441183
Butea monosperma, photographed by P Jeganathan
fig. f P Jeganathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113989646
Butea monosperma, photographed by P Jeganathan
fig. g P Jeganathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113989634
Butea monosperma, photographed by Suhel Quader
fig. h Suhel Quader, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170446990

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Butea monosperma is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalPakistanSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Butea monosperma, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
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 214 in flower of 255 examined

Peak flowering in Dec. Each bar is the share of Butea monosperma 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. 214 of 255 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 16 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.

  • Butea braamania DC.
  • Butea braamiana DC.
  • Butea frondosa Roxb.
  • Butea frondosa Roxb. ex Willd.
  • Butea frondosa var. lutea D.O.Witt
  • Butea frondosa var. lutea (Witt.) Maheshw.
  • Butea monosperma var. lutea (D.O.Witt) Maheshw.
  • Corallodendron monospermum (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Erythrina monosperma Lam.
  • Erythrina polysperma Pritz.
  • Kennedia monosperma (Lam.) Steud.
  • Plaso frondosa (Roxb.) A.Lyons
  • Plaso monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze
  • Plaso monosperma var. flava Kuntze
  • Plaso monosperma var. rubra Kuntze
  • Rudolphia frondosa (Roxb.) Poir.

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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