Distribution
Native to:
Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Introduced into:
Andaman Is., Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, Pakistan, Sulawesi, Sumatera
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Jonesia asoca Roxb. in Asiat. Res. 4: 355 (1795)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Jonesia confusa Hassk. in Retzia 1: 194 (1855)
- Saraca confusa (Hassk.) Backer in Voorl. Schoolfl. Java: 103 (1908)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Ali, S.I. (1973). Caesalpiniaceae. Flora of West Pakistan 54: 1-47.
- Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Lock, J.M. & Ford, C.S. (2004). Legumes of Malesia a Check-List: 1-295. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Smith, A.C. (1985). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 3: 1-758. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
- Zhu, X.Y., Zhang, R.P. & He, Y.L. (eds.) (2021). An inventory of legume species diversity of Myanmar: 1-297. China Minzu university press.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Lock, J.M. & Ford, C.S. (2004). Legumes of Malesia a Check-List: 1-295. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- 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.
International Legume Database and Information Service
- Ali, S. I. (1973). Flora of Pakistan, No. 54 Caesalpiniaceae. Karachi:Univ Karac
- Bouton, L. (1857). Trans. Roy. Soc. Arts Mauritius n. s. 1:1-177 Medicinal plants...
- Deb, D. B. (1981). The Flora of Tripura State Vol 1
- Jain, S. K. (1991). Dictionary of Indian Folk Medicine and Ethnobotany
- Polhill, R, M. (1990). Legumineuses. In: Flore des Mascareignes, Vol 80. J. Bosser et a
- Rudd, V. E. (1991). Flora of Ceylon 7: 34-107. Caesalpinioideae
- Saxena, H. O. & Brahman, M. (1994). The Flora of Orissa (Ranunculaceae to Fabaceae)
- Verdcourt, B. (1979). A Manual of New Guinea Legumes. Office of Forests, Lae, PNG
- Zuijderhout, G. F. P. (1967). Blumea 15(2) :413-425 A Revision of the Genus Saraca L.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Forsyth [s.n.], India | K000780046 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5822], India | Jonesia asoca | K001122273 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5822] | Jonesia asoca | K001122276 | Yes | ||
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 5822], Myanmar | Jonesia asoca | K001122277 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5822], India | Jonesia asoca | K001122272 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5822] | Jonesia asoca | K001122280 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5822] | Jonesia asoca | K001122274 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5822] | Jonesia asoca | K001122270 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5822], India | Jonesia asoca | K001122271 | Yes | ||
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 5822] | Jonesia asoca | K001122275 | Yes | ||
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 5822], Myanmar | Jonesia asoca | K001122279 | Yes | ||
Gomez, W. [Cat. no. 5822], Myanmar | Jonesia asoca | K001122278 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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International Legume Database and Information Service
- International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images