Terminalia ellipticaWilld.

WFO wfo-0000408759 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-09-28 / obs. 98376478
Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 136202338
Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50476561
Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54311231
Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. e Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57329410
Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125114020
Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195691706
Terminalia elliptica, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132308471

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Terminalia elliptica is native: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya AssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Terminalia elliptica, 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

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 24 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.

  • Chuncoa tomentosa Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
  • Pentaptera coriacea Roxb.
  • Pentaptera crenulata Roxb.
  • Pentaptera crenulata (Roth) DC.
  • Pentaptera cuneata DC.
  • Pentaptera macrocarpa Wall.
  • Pentaptera maradu G.Don
  • Pentaptera tomentosa Roxb.
  • Pentaptera tomentosa Roxb. ex DC.
  • Terminalia alata B.Heyne ex Roth
  • Terminalia alata f. pilosa C.E.Parkinson
  • Terminalia alata f. velutina C.E.Parkinson
  • Terminalia alata var. tomentosa C.E.Parkinson
  • Terminalia arjuna var. angustifolia C.B.Clarke
  • Terminalia coriacea (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
  • Terminalia coriacea Biehler
  • Terminalia crenulata Roth
  • Terminalia glabra var. tomentosa Dalzell & A.Gibson
  • Terminalia macrocarpa Steud. ex Kurz
  • Terminalia ovata Rottler ex C.B.Clarke
  • Terminalia ovata var. angustifolia (Clarke) S.Yadav & M.R.Almeida
  • Terminalia tomentosa Wight & Arn.
  • Terminalia tomentosa var. coriacea (Roxb.) C.B.Clarke
  • Terminalia tomentosa var. crenulata (Roth) C.B.Clarke

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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