Pterocarpus marsupiumRoxb.

East Indian kinoMalabar kino

WFO wfo-0000185089 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-04 / obs. 114818526
Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by Meghaa
fig. b Meghaa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185185116
Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by Karthik Thrikkadeeri
fig. c Karthik Thrikkadeeri, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177532695
Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by S.MORE
fig. d S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 67148278
Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by Geetha Ramaswami
fig. e Geetha Ramaswami, CC0 1.0 / obs. 46040605
Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. f T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195078650
Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by Manoj Karingamadathil
fig. g Manoj Karingamadathil, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 51549838
Pterocarpus marsupium, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60832894

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Pterocarpus marsupium is native: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka BangladeshIndiaNepalSri Lanka
Native distribution of Pterocarpus marsupium, 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
Bangladesh BAN ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL

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 11 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 marsupium (Roxb.) Kuntze
  • Pterocarpos marsupius (Roxb.) St.-Lag.
  • Pterocarpus bilobus Roxb. ex G.Don
  • Pterocarpus flavus Roxb. ex Rottler
  • Pterocarpus marsupium f. acuminata (Prain) Prain
  • Pterocarpus marsupium f. acuta Prain
  • Pterocarpus marsupium f. biloba (Roxb. ex G.Don) Prain
  • Pterocarpus marsupium var. acuminata Prain
  • Pterocarpus marsupium var. acuminatus Prain
  • Pterocarpus santalinus Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Pterocarpus vijaya Buch.-Ham.

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.

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