Sapotaceae
Madhuca
Madhuca longifolia

Madhuca longifolia var. latifolia (Roxb.) A.Chev.

First published in Rep. Bot. Appl. 23: 149 (1943)
This variety is accepted
The native range of this variety is India to Bangladesh, S. Central Sri Lanka. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Common Names

unknown
butter nut, illipe nuts, illipi, mahua, mahwa, maku, mowah beans mahua, urulu-mi

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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 2026. 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