Flemingia macrophylla(Willd.) Kuntze ex Merr.

WFO wfo-0000194840 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / 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.

Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-12-08 / obs. 108807848
Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by Romer N. Rabarijaona
fig. b Romer N. Rabarijaona, CC0 1.0 / obs. 8464128
Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178099224
Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108807861
Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56618394
Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by Romer N. Rabarijaona
fig. f Romer N. Rabarijaona, CC0 1.0 / obs. 8464124
Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178099218
Flemingia macrophylla, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56618389

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Flemingia macrophylla is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Flemingia macrophylla, 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
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI

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 33 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.

  • Crotalaria cavaleriei H.Lév.
  • Crotalaria macrophylla Willd.
  • Flemingia bhottea Buch.-Ham.
  • Flemingia brevipes Craib
  • Flemingia capitata Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Flemingia congesta Roxb. ex W.T.Aiton
  • Flemingia congesta var. tomentosa Miq.
  • Flemingia congesta var. viridis Prain
  • Flemingia horsfieldii Blume ex Miq.
  • Flemingia latifolia var. hainanensis Y.T.Wei & S.K.Lee
  • Flemingia latifolia var. siamensis Craib
  • Flemingia macrophylla var. congesta (Roxb. ex W.T.Aiton) M.R.Almeida
  • Flemingia macrophylla var. viridis (Prain) H.B.Naithani
  • Flemingia sericans Kurz
  • Flemingia trinervia Desf.
  • Hedysarum trinervium Roxb. ex Wall.
  • Maughania brevipes (Craib) H.L.Li
  • Maughania macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze
  • Maughania macrophylla f. poecilantha Kuntze
  • Maughania macrophylla f. viridula Kuntze
  • Maughania sericans (Kurz) Mukerjee
  • Maughania tomentosa (Miq.) H.L.Li
  • Moghania cumingiana (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Moghania latifolia (Benth.) Mukerjee

and 9 more.

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.

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