Sterculia guttataRoxb.

WFO wfo-0000491653 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sterculia guttata, photographed by S.MORE
fig. a S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / 2020-11-25 / obs. 105581948
Sterculia guttata, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104591665
Sterculia guttata, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64493057
Sterculia guttata, photographed by S.MORE
fig. d S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 66388164
Sterculia guttata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151643262
Sterculia guttata, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42766376
Sterculia guttata, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60574414
Sterculia guttata, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128783687

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Sterculia guttata is native: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand AssamBangladeshIndiaLaosMyanmarThailand Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Sterculia guttata, 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
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Thailand THA

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 64 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.7 °C 15.2 °C 22.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.5 °C 32.4 °C 35.7 °C
Annual rainfall 1,055 mm 3,484 mm 4,520 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 20 mm 144 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 64 research-grade observations of Sterculia guttata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Astrodendrum malabaricum Dennst.
  • Clompanus malabarica (Dennst.) Kuntze

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.

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.