Ormocarpum cochinchinense(Lour.) Merr.

Indochina ormocarpum

WFO wfo-0000186600 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Ormocarpum cochinchinense, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2020-10-07 / obs. 101833458
Ormocarpum cochinchinense, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. b Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93695454
Ormocarpum cochinchinense, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 101833515
Ormocarpum cochinchinense, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 101833505
Ormocarpum cochinchinense, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 101833489
Ormocarpum cochinchinense, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 101833466

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Ormocarpum cochinchinense is native: Nansei-shoto, Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, India, Jawa, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam Bismarck ArchipelagoIndiaJawaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiThailandVietnam Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.
Native distribution of Ormocarpum cochinchinense, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
India IND
Jawa JAW
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Nansei-shoto NNS 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 17 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.

  • Dalbergia diphaca Pers.
  • Diphaca cochinchinense Lour.
  • Diphaca cochinchinensis Lour.
  • Diphaca cochinchinensis f. grandifoliolata Taub.
  • Diphaca cochinchinensis f. parvifoliolata Taub.
  • Diphaea cochinchinense Lour.
  • Hedysarum cochinchinense (Lour.) Schrank
  • Ormocarpum glabrum Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Ormocarpum glabrum var. minahassanum Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Ormocarpum intermedium Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Ormocarpum ochroleucum Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Ormocarpum orientale (Spreng.) Merr.
  • Ormocarpum sennoides var. laevis Benth.
  • Ormocarpum singapurianum Wall.
  • Parkinsonia orientale Spreng.
  • Parkinsonia orientalis Spreng.
  • Solulus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Kuntze

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ORCO14. public domain. 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.

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