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Species
Indian trumpet tree
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyBignoniaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is.
Observations931
Observations recorded1,438
Tropical Himalaya, India to Indo-China, Malaysia, W. & S. China.
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 521
- With media
- 465
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Collections
- CAS, ANSP, MICH, BRIT, NY, US
- Recorded in
- China, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Nepal, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- useful plant
- Parent taxon
- Oroxylum
- Image
- Oroxylum indicum Blanco1.219.png
- Has use
- fodder
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- Commons category
- Oroxylum indicum
- taxon name
- Oroxylum indicum
- taxon rank
- species
- Commons gallery
- Oroxylum indicum
- taxon common name
- 木蝴蝶树皮
- short name
- O. indicum
- taxon author citation
- (L.) Kurz
- taxon range
- Myanmar
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/93725bf2-6ada-47f9-bd5e-0e679e3d245e
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Encyclopedic overview
Oroxylum indicum is a species of flowering plant, in the monotypic genus Oroxylum in the family Bignoniaceae. It is commonly called Indian trumpet tree, oroxylum, Indian trumpet flower, broken bones, scythe tree, tree of Damocles, or midnight horror. It can reach a height of 18 metres (59 ft). Various segments of the tree are used in traditional medicine.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oroxylum indicum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.