Xanthophyllum flavescensRoxb.

WFO wfo-0000428552 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

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.

Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-11-13 / obs. 136220411
Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. b Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66230624
Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. c T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195295660
Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 136220413
Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66230599
Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42768072
Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42768149
Xanthophyllum flavescens, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. h T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195295719

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000610326
Filed as
Xanthophyllum flavescens Roxb.
Det. by
Rogier de Kok
Collected
Gregson; Bernadus Bala Ola
Origin
MY
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Xanthophyllum flavescens is native: China South-Central, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Xanthophyllum flavescens, 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
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
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 18 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.

  • Banisteroides affine (Korth. ex Miq.) Kuntze
  • Kaulfussia geminiflora Dennst.
  • Xanthophyllum adenopodum Miq.
  • Xanthophyllum affine Korth. ex Miq.
  • Xanthophyllum angustifolium Wight
  • Xanthophyllum arnottianum Wight
  • Xanthophyllum floriferum Elmer
  • Xanthophyllum geminiflorum (Dennst.) Alston
  • Xanthophyllum glandulosum Merr.
  • Xanthophyllum loheri Merr.
  • Xanthophyllum multiramosum Elmer
  • Xanthophyllum obliquum Craib
  • Xanthophyllum pallidum Ridl.
  • Xanthophyllum roxburghianum Wight
  • Xanthophyllum sarawakensis Chodat
  • Xanthophyllum siamense Craib
  • Xanthophyllum undulatum Wight
  • Xanthophyllum virescens D.Dietr.

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.