Wrightia arborea(Dennst.) Mabb.

WFO wfo-0000334509 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Wrightia arborea, photographed by Ajit Ampalakkad
fig. a Ajit Ampalakkad, CC0 1.0 / 2017-05-18 / obs. 13913814
Wrightia arborea, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60695410
Wrightia arborea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123791630
Wrightia arborea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123344550
Wrightia arborea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119977776
Wrightia arborea, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. f Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193657891
Wrightia arborea, photographed by S.MORE
fig. g S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 92792148
Wrightia arborea, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 129790457

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Wrightia arborea is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Wrightia arborea, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
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 17 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.

  • Beaumontia wallichii Walp.
  • Chonemorpha vestita G.Don
  • Echites tomentosus Roth
  • Echites vestitus Roem. & Schult.
  • Hunteria eugeniifolia Wall. ex G.Don
  • Nerium coraea Buch.-Ham. ex A.DC.
  • Nerium tomentosum Roxb.
  • Periploca arborea Dennst.
  • Wrightia coalita Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn
  • Wrightia coraia Wall.
  • Wrightia hamiltoniana Wall.
  • Wrightia mollissima Hort.Pondich. ex A.DC.
  • Wrightia mollissima Wall.
  • Wrightia pubescens Roth
  • Wrightia rheedei Kostel.
  • Wrightia tomentosa Roem. & Schult.
  • Wrightia wallichii A.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.

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