Apocynaceae
Wrightia

Wrightia arborea (Dennst.) Mabb.

First published in Taxon 26: 533 (1977)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Indian Subcontinent to S. China and Peninsula Malaysia. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Balkrishna, A. (2018). Flora of Morni Hills (Research & Possibilities): 1-581. Divya Yoga Mandir Trust.
  • Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.
  • Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
  • Rajbhandari, K.R., Rai, S.K. & Chhetri, R. (2022). A Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Nepal 4: 1-522. Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Roxburgh, W. [s.n.] India K001129782 Lectotype Yes
Gamble, J.S. [11359] India K001129786 Type Yes
s.coll. [1627] K000857662 Unknown Type Material Yes
Wight, R. [Peninsula Indiae Orientalis No. 1866] India K001129781 Neotype Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 1628] Burma Wrightia tomentosa K001113638 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 1628] Wrightia tomentosa K001113641 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gomez, W. [Cat. no. 1628] Burma Wrightia tomentosa K001113640 Unknown Type Material Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 1628] Burma Wrightia tomentosa K001113639 Unknown Type Material Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 1627] Nepal Wrightia mollissima K001113634 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 1627] Wrightia mollissima K001113636 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 1627] India Wrightia mollissima K001113637 Unknown Type Material Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 1627] India Wrightia mollissima K001113635 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 4461] Wrightia hamiltoniana K001039052 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images