Barringtonia asiatica - Putat Laut - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Subphylum Angiospermae 2272 Class Magnoliopsida 1790 Order Ericales 79 Family Lecythidaceae 12 Genus Barringtonia 8

Barringtonia acutangula

Barringtonia asiatica

Barringtonia calyptrata Barringtonia conoidea Barringtonia edulis Barringtonia macrostachya Barringtonia racemosa Barringtonia reticulata

Native Critically Endangered

Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz Species

Putat Laut

Native tree species. Critically endangered in the wild, but also cultivated.

Other common names

Sea Poison Tree en, Asian Barringtonia en, Box Fruit Tree en, Fish Poison Tree en, Putat Laut ms, Sea Putat en, Beach Barringtonia en, Fish-killer-tree en, Mango-pine en, Mangobark en, 垦丁肉粽 zh, 棋盘脚树 zh, 滨玉蕊 zh, 魔鬼树 zh, Box Fruit en.

Distribution

American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Vietnam and Wallis and Futuna.