Erythrina subumbrans(Hassk.) Merr.

erythrina

WFO wfo-0000185021 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Erythrina subumbrans, photographed by Paulmathi Vinod
fig. a Paulmathi Vinod, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-23 / obs. 171549667
Erythrina subumbrans, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141890478
Erythrina subumbrans, photographed by Paulmathi Vinod
fig. c Paulmathi Vinod, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140883692
Erythrina subumbrans, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141890490

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
4806117
Filed as
Erythrina subumbrans (Hassk.) Merr.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
A. D. E. Elmer 1906-01
Origin
PH
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Erythrina subumbrans is native: China South-Central, Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Fiji, Samoa China South-CentralAssamBorneoIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamFiji Andaman Is.Samoa
Native distribution of Erythrina subumbrans, 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
Borneo BOR
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Fiji FIJ PACIFIC
Samoa SAM
China South-Central CHC 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 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.

  • Corallodendron holosericeum (Kurz) Kuntze
  • Corallodendron lithospermum (Blume ex Miq.) Kuntze
  • Corallodendron sumatranum (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Erythrina holoserica Kurz
  • Erythrina holosericea Kurz
  • Erythrina hypaphorus Boerl. ex Koord.-Schum.
  • Erythrina lithosperma Blume ex Miq.
  • Erythrina lithosperma var. armata Miq.
  • Erythrina lithosperma var. inermis Miq.
  • Erythrina mysorensis Gamble
  • Erythrina secundiflora Hassk.
  • Erythrina sumatrana Miq.
  • Hypaphorus subumbrans Hassk.
  • Hypaphorus subumbrans var. aculeata Hassk.
  • Hypaphorus subumbrans var. inermis Hassk.

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.

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.