Spondias pinnata(L.f.) Kurz

WFO wfo-0001049363 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Spondias pinnata, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. a Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-15 / obs. 182966766
Spondias pinnata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121972512
Spondias pinnata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119600186
Spondias pinnata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121972515
Spondias pinnata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 121972520
Spondias pinnata, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. f Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182966816
Spondias pinnata, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. g Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182966783
Spondias pinnata, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. h Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182966799

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Spondias pinnata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Spondias pinnata, 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
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH

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 12 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.

  • Buchanania yunnanensis C.Y.Wu
  • Evia amara Comm. ex Blume
  • Mangifera pinnata L.f.
  • Poupartia acuminata (Roxb.) Wall.
  • Spondias acuminata Roxb.
  • Spondias amara Lam.
  • Spondias bivenomarginalis K.M.Feng & P.I Mao
  • Spondias macrophylla Wall.
  • Spondias mangifera Willd.
  • Spondias paniculata Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Spondias sinensis Lour. ex Steud.
  • Wirtgenia decandra Jungh.

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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