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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
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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.