Stereospermum colais(Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn) Mabb.

WFO wfo-0000779618 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Stereospermum colais, photographed by Seema Merchant
fig. a Seema Merchant, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-13 / obs. 163205882
Stereospermum colais, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125802265
Stereospermum colais, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125003625
Stereospermum colais, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 124996183
Stereospermum colais, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128582394
Stereospermum colais, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195635538
Stereospermum colais, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125802285
Stereospermum colais, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125003636

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Stereospermum colais is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalSri LankaSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Stereospermum colais, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

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.

  • Bignonia caudata DC.
  • Bignonia caudata Miq. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Bignonia colais Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn
  • Bignonia tetragona Wall. ex DC.
  • Dipterosperma personatum Hassk.
  • Stereospermum caudatum (DC.) Miq.
  • Stereospermum colais var. angustifolium V.Chandrasekaran
  • Stereospermum colais var. angustifolium Bennet & Raizada
  • Stereospermum colais var. puberula (Dop) D.D.Tao
  • Stereospermum hasskarlii Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Stereospermum personatum (Hassk.) Chatterjee
  • Stereospermum tetragonum DC.

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.