Chukrasia tabularisA.Juss.

WFO wfo-0000604169 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. a Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-18 / obs. 183379096
Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 86526404
Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119279252
Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197054959
Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 118121667
Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117756867
Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. g Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183379104
Chukrasia tabularis, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 86526400

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Chukrasia tabularis is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Tibet, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Chukrasia tabularis, 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
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Tibet CHT

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 76 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.8 °C 13.3 °C 20.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.1 °C 29.7 °C 35.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,166 mm 2,199 mm 3,725 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 102 mm 658 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 76 research-grade observations of Chukrasia tabularis 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 21 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.

  • Cedrela villosa Roxb.
  • Chukrasia chickrassa (Roxb.) J.Schultze-Motel
  • Chukrasia nimmonii Graham ex Wight
  • Chukrasia tabularis var. dongnaiensis (Pierre) Pellegr.
  • Chukrasia tabularis var. macrocarpa (Pierre) Pellegr.
  • Chukrasia tabularis var. microcarpa (Pierre) Pellegr.
  • Chukrasia tabularis var. tabularis
  • Chukrasia tabularis var. velutina (M.Roem.) W.Theob.
  • Chukrasia tabularis var. velutina (M.Roem.) King
  • Chukrasia trilocularis (Roxb. ex G.Don) M.Roem.
  • Chukrasia velutina M.Roem.
  • Chukrasia velutina var. dongnaiensis Pierre
  • Chukrasia velutina var. macrocarpa Pierre
  • Chukrasia velutina var. microcarpa Pierre
  • Dysoxylum esquirolii H.Lév.
  • Surenus velutina Kuntze
  • Swietenia trilocularis Roxb. ex G.Don
  • Swietenia velutina (M.Roem.) Wall. ex Kurz
  • Swietenia villosa Wall. ex Kurz
  • Toona velutina M.Roem.
  • Toona villosa M.Roem.

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.