Adenanthera pavonina (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Adenanthera pavonina L.

Synonyms

Adenanthera gersenii Scheffer.

Vernacular names

• Coralwood (En)
• Indonesia: kitoke laut (Sundanese), saga telik, segawe sabrang (Javanese)
• Malaysia: saga tumpul (Peninsular)
• Philippines: malatanglin (Filipino). Burma (Myanmar): mai-chek
• Cambodia: chan' trèi
• Laos: lam²
• Thailand: ma klam ta chang, ma klam ton (general), ma hok daeng (northern).

Distribution

Sri Lanka, southern Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, southern China, Thailand, throughout Malesia (except for the Philippines) and the Solomon Islands; widely cultivated and occasionally naturalized within this region, but also commonly planted in India and Africa.

J.P. Rojo