Hymenodictyon orixense(Roxb.) Mabb.

WFO wfo-0000216107 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.

Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-03-07 / obs. 119271282
Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Mittal Gala
fig. b Mittal Gala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90210147
Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130213368
Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Mittal Gala
fig. d Mittal Gala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90210155
Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 130213369
Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Manoj Karingamadathil
fig. f Manoj Karingamadathil, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 51550063
Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698204
Hymenodictyon orixense, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698208

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Hymenodictyon orixense is native: China South-Central, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalPhilippinesSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Hymenodictyon orixense, 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
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
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 14 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.

  • Benteca rheedei Roem. & Schult.
  • Benteka rheedei Roem. & Schult.
  • Cinchona excelsa Roxb.
  • Cinchona orixensis Roxb.
  • Cinchona thyrsiflora Roxb.
  • Exostema philippicum Schult.
  • Hymenodictyon excelsum (Roxb.) DC.
  • Hymenodictyon excelsum (Roxb.) Wall.
  • Hymenodictyon excelsum var. canescens Pierre ex Pit.
  • Hymenodictyon excelsum var. subglabrum Pierre ex Pit.
  • Hymenodictyon excelsum var. velutinum Pierre ex Pit.
  • Hymenodictyon rheedei (Roem. & Schult.) M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida
  • Hymenodictyon thyrsiflorum Wall.
  • Hymenodictyon utile Wight

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.