Ehretia asperaWilld.

WFO wfo-0000663343 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Ehretia aspera, photographed by Rohit Naniwadekar
fig. a Rohit Naniwadekar, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-09 / obs. 115297478
Ehretia aspera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61418402
Ehretia aspera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130885637
Ehretia aspera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130754213
Ehretia aspera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130717015
Ehretia aspera, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61418407
Ehretia aspera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130885642
Ehretia aspera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130754222

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Ehretia aspera is native: Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya HainanAssamCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Ehretia aspera, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Nicobar Is. NCB
Pakistan PAK
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
Hainan CHH ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 24 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.

  • Bourreria aspera (Willd.) G.Don
  • Bourreria dichotoma Rottler ex G.Don
  • Bourreria laevis G.Don
  • Bourreria punctata (Roth) G.Don
  • Ehretia affinis Wall.
  • Ehretia aspera var. obtusifolia (Hochst. ex DC.) Parmar
  • Ehretia canarensis Miq. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Ehretia catronga Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Ehretia championii Wight & Gardner ex C.B.Clarke
  • Ehretia cutranga C.B.Clarke
  • Ehretia floribunda Royle
  • Ehretia heynei Roem. & Schult.
  • Ehretia indica (Dennst. ex Kostel.) M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida
  • Ehretia laevis Roxb.
  • Ehretia laevis var. aspera (Willd.) C.B.Clarke
  • Ehretia laevis var. canarensis C.B.Clarke
  • Ehretia laevis var. floribunda (Royle) Brandis
  • Ehretia laevis var. platyphylla Merr.
  • Ehretia laevis var. pubescens (Royle ex Benth.) C.B.Clarke
  • Ehretia ovalifolia Wight
  • Ehretia pubescens Royle ex Benth.
  • Ehretia punctata Roth
  • Ehretia punctata Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Traxilum asperatum Raf.

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.