Thespesia populnea - Indian Tuliptree - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Subphylum Angiospermae 2272 Class Magnoliopsida 1790 Order Malvales 120 Family Malvaceae 66 Subfamily Malvoideae 16 Tribe Gossypieae 1 Genus Thespesia 1

Thespesia populnea

Native

Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa Species

Indian Tuliptree

Native tree species. Common, cultivated.

Other common names

Bebaru ms, Pacific Rosewood en, Polynesian Rosewood en, Popnut en, Portia Tree en, Rosewood en, Seaside Mahoe en, Seychelles Rosewood en, Spanish Cork en.

Distribution

American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, U.S. Virgin Islands, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna and Yemen.