Pterocarpus indicus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Pterocarpus
- Species
- Pterocarpus indicus
- Scientific Name
- Pterocarpus indicus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pterocarpus indicus
Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra (from Tagalog) and asana in the Philippines, angsana, or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus in the family Fabaceae native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Pterocarpus indicus was one of two species (the other being Eysenhardtia polystachya) used as a source for the 16th- to 18th-century traditional diuretic known as lignum nephriticum.
Many populations of Pterocarpus indicus are seriously threatened. It is extinct in Vietnam and possibly in Sri Lanka and Peninsular Malaysia. It was declared the national tree of the Philippines in 1934 by Governor-General Frank Murphy of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands through Proclamation No. 652.
...Pterocarpus indicus in languages:
- Chinese
- 紫檀
- Chinese
- 牛血樹
- Chinese
- 印度紫檀
- Czech
- křídlok indický
- English
- Burmese-Rosewood
- English
- Angsana
- Indonesian
- Sonokembang
- Indonesian
- Angsana
- Japanese
- インドカリン
- Japanese
- インドシタン
- Russian
- Птерокарпус индийский
- Thai
- ประดู่บ้าน
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pterocarpus acapulcensis
- Pterocarpus amazonum
- Pterocarpus amphymenium
- Pterocarpus angolensis
- Pterocarpus brenanii
- Pterocarpus dalbergioides
- Pterocarpus erinaceus
- Pterocarpus hayesii
- Pterocarpus indicus
- Pterocarpus lucens
- Pterocarpus macrocarpus
- Pterocarpus marsupium
- Pterocarpus michelianus
- Pterocarpus mildbraedii
- Pterocarpus officinalis
- Pterocarpus orbiculatus
- Pterocarpus rohrii
- Pterocarpus rotundifolius
- Pterocarpus santalinoides
- Pterocarpus santalinus
- Pterocarpus tinctorius
- Pterocarpus vidalianus
- Pterocarpus villosus
- Pterocarpus violaceus
- Pterocarpus zenkeri
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