Xylia xylocarpa(Roxb.) W.Theob.

WFO wfo-0000172302 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. a Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-21 / obs. 189617763
Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. b Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183058383
Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132283659
Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132079628
Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132070931
Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132100863
Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. g Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180854381
Xylia xylocarpa, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60698339

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Xylia xylocarpa is native: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam AssamBangladeshCambodiaIndiaLaosMyanmarThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Xylia xylocarpa, 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
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Thailand THA
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 9 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.

  • Acacia xylocarpa (Roxb.) Willd.
  • Esclerona montana Raf.
  • Inga dolabriformis Graham
  • Inga lignosa Graham
  • Inga xylocarpa (Roxb.) DC.
  • Mimosa coorgensis B.Heyne ex Wall.
  • Mimosa xylocarpa Roxb.
  • Xylia dolabriformis Benth.
  • Xylia kerrii Craib & Hutch.

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.