Xantolis tomentosaRaf.

WFO wfo-0000334943 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-02-11 / obs. 179234019
Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179226498
Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179224849
Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179215207
Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42017835
Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60695432
Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41571934
Xantolis tomentosa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128784241

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Xantolis tomentosa is native: Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Vietnam CambodiaIndiaMyanmarSri LankaVietnam
Native distribution of Xantolis tomentosa, 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
Cambodia CBD ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Myanmar MYA
Sri Lanka SRL
Vietnam VIE

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.

  • Achras elengioides Bedd.
  • Achras tomentosa Bedd.
  • Planchonella dongnaiensis Pierre ex Dubard
  • Planchonella elengioides Pierre
  • Planchonella tomentosa Pierre
  • Pouteria dongnaiensis (Pierre ex Dubard) Baehni
  • Pouteria tomentosa (Roxb.) Baehni
  • Sapota armata (Roth) A.DC.
  • Sapota elengioides A.DC.
  • Sapota tomentosa A.DC.
  • Sideroxylon armatum Roth
  • Sideroxylon dongnaiense (Pierre ex Dubard) Pierre ex Lecomte
  • Sideroxylon dongnaiense Pierre
  • Sideroxylon tomentosum Roxb.
  • Sideroxylon wightianum Wall.
  • Xantolis dongnaiensis (Pierre ex Dubard) Aubrév.
  • Xantolis tomentosa var. elengioides (A.DC.) Vajr.

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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