Sorindeia madagascariensisDC.

WFO wfo-0001049423 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 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.

Sorindeia madagascariensis, photographed by Romer N. Rabarijaona
fig. a Romer N. Rabarijaona, CC0 1.0 / 2015-11-13 / obs. 2703249
Sorindeia madagascariensis, photographed by Romer N. Rabarijaona
fig. b Romer N. Rabarijaona, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2963428
Sorindeia madagascariensis, photographed by Romer N. Rabarijaona
fig. c Romer N. Rabarijaona, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2703578
Sorindeia madagascariensis, photographed by Romer N. Rabarijaona
fig. d Romer N. Rabarijaona, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2706491
Sorindeia madagascariensis, photographed by Romer N. Rabarijaona
fig. e Romer N. Rabarijaona, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2720386

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Sorindeia madagascariensis is native: Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania KenyaMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueSomaliaTanzania Comoros
Native distribution of Sorindeia madagascariensis, 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
Comoros COM AFRICA
Kenya KEN
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN

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 16 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.

  • Aglaia somalensis Chiov.
  • Bursera acutifolia Sieber
  • Bursera acutifolia Sieber ex Steud.
  • Daphnitis madagascarensis Spreng.
  • Mangifera pinnata Desr.
  • Mauria guianensis Brongn. ex Engl.
  • Sorindeia elongata Blume
  • Sorindeia glaberrima Hassk.
  • Sorindeia goudotii Brig.
  • Sorindeia heterandra Marchand
  • Sorindeia madagascariensis var. elongata L.Marchand
  • Sorindeia obtusifoliolata Engl.
  • Sorindeia obtusifoliolata var. obtusifoliolata
  • Sorindeia pinnata (L.f.) Desf.
  • Sorindeia somalensis (Chiov.) Chiov.
  • Sorindeia usambarensis Engl.

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.

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