Pterocarpus macrocarpusKurz

Burma padauk

WFO wfo-0000194875 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Pterocarpus macrocarpus, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. a Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-15 / obs. 183057944
Pterocarpus macrocarpus, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. b Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183057965
Pterocarpus macrocarpus, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. c Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183057983
Pterocarpus macrocarpus, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. d Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183058005
Pterocarpus macrocarpus, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. e Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183123920
Pterocarpus macrocarpus, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. f Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183123932
Pterocarpus macrocarpus, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. g Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183123938

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Pterocarpus macrocarpus is native: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam CambodiaLaosMyanmarThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Pterocarpus macrocarpus, 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
Cambodia CBD ASIA-TROPICAL
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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 30 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.

  • Lingoum cambodianum Pierre
  • Lingoum glaucinum Pierre
  • Lingoum gracile Pierre
  • Lingoum macrocarpum (Kurz) Kuntze
  • Lingoum oblongum Pierre
  • Lingoum parvifolium Pierre
  • Lingoum pedatum Pierre
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus (Pierre) Dyer
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus (Pierre) Gagnep.
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus (Pierre) Dyer
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus var. calcicola Craib
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus var. glaucinus (Pierre) Gagnep.
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus var. gracilis (Pierre) Gagnep.
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus var. oblongus (Pierre) Gagnep.
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus var. parvifolius (Pierre) Gagnep.
  • Pterocarpus cambodianus var. parvifolius (Pierre) Gagnep.
  • Pterocarpus glaucinus (Pierre) Dyer
  • Pterocarpus glaucinus Pierre
  • Pterocarpus gracilis (Pierre) Dyer
  • Pterocarpus gracilis Pierre
  • Pterocarpus gracilis var. brevipes Craib
  • Pterocarpus gracilis var. nitidus Craib
  • Pterocarpus macrocarpus var. oblongus (Pierre) Gagnep.
  • Pterocarpus oblongus (Pierre) Dyer

and 6 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. 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.