Saraca declinata(Jack) Miq.

red saracasorrowless tree

WFO wfo-0000192941 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 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.

Saraca declinata, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. a Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-01-21 / obs. 34117772
Saraca declinata, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. b Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34117762
Saraca declinata, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. c Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34117755
Saraca declinata, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. d Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34117789

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Saraca declinata is native: Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam BangladeshBorneoCambodiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNew GuineaSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Saraca declinata, 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
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Sumatera SUM
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 19 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.

  • Jonesia declinata Jack
  • Jonesia javanica Blume ex Miq.
  • Jonesia macroptera Miq.
  • Jonesia palembanica Miq.
  • Saraca biglandulosa Pierre
  • Saraca crassifolia Ridl.
  • Saraca elegans Ridl.
  • Saraca elmeri Ridl.
  • Saraca indica sensu Miq., non L.
  • Saraca lanceolata Merr.
  • Saraca longistyla Ridl.
  • Saraca macroptera Miq.
  • Saraca macroptera var. parviflora Prain
  • Saraca macroptera var. paucijuga Craib
  • Saraca macroptera var. siamensis Craib
  • Saraca obtusifolia Miq.
  • Saraca palembanica (Miq.) Baker
  • Saraca thorelii Gagnep.
  • Saraca zollingeriana Miq.

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.