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Pterocarpus indicus
Sign in to saveAlso known as Burmese rosewood, Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood
species of plant
Species
EndangeredSPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Der Narrabaum (Pterocarpus indicus) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung Pterocarpus in der Unterfamilie der Schmetterlingsblütler (Faboideae). Die Baumart ist im tropischen Asien und auf den pazifischen Inseln beheimatet.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,703
- With media
- 1,459
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- MEL, BRIT, IBUNAM, MICH, CM, NY
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Honduras, Indonesia, United States, Federated States Of Micronesia, Puerto Rico, Philippines, The
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pterocarpus indicus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.