Terminalia chebulaRetz.

myrobalan

WFO wfo-0000406875 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.

Terminalia chebula, photographed by S.MORE
fig. a S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-07 / obs. 174707892
Terminalia chebula, photographed by Seema Merchant
fig. b Seema Merchant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149853070
Terminalia chebula, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99317468
Terminalia chebula, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75525393
Terminalia chebula, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75525367
Terminalia chebula, photographed by Seema Merchant
fig. f Seema Merchant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149853179
Terminalia chebula, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75525415
Terminalia chebula, photographed by Seema Merchant
fig. h Seema Merchant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149853116

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Terminalia chebula is native: China South-Central, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Terminalia chebula, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

  • Buceras chebula (Retz.) Lyons
  • Combretum argyrophyllum K.Schum.
  • Myrobalanifera citrina Houtt.
  • Myrobalanifera fertilis J.F.Gmel.
  • Myrobalanus chebula (Retz.) Gaertn.
  • Myrobalanus gangetica (Roxb.) Kostel.
  • Myrobalanus tomentella Kuntze
  • Terminalia acuta Walp.
  • Terminalia argyrophylla King & Prain
  • Terminalia aruta Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don
  • Terminalia bengalensis Roxb. ex DC.
  • Terminalia chebula var. chebula
  • Terminalia chebula var. gangetica (Roxb.) C.B.Clarke
  • Terminalia chebula var. tomentella (Kurz) C.B.Clarke
  • Terminalia gangetica Roxb.
  • Terminalia glandulipetiolata De Wild.
  • Terminalia reticulata B.Heyne ex Roth
  • Terminalia rotata Roxb. ex DC.
  • Terminalia tomentella Kurz

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.

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