''Erythrina stricta'' is a species of trees in the family
identified by
William Roxburgh
William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE Linnean Society of London, FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish people, Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known ...
in 1832. It is now placed in the subfamily
Faboideae
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family.
This subfamily is wide ...
and the tribe
Phaseoleae
The plant tribe Phaseoleae is one of the subdivisions of the legume subfamily Faboideae, in the unranked NPAAA clade. This group includes many of the beans cultivated for human and animal food, most importantly from the genera ''Glycine'', ' ...
. This species has been recorded from the
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ...
,
Indochina
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...
and China. There is one valid variety: ''E. stricta var. suberosa''.
Erythrina stricta contains the indole alkaloid Hypaphorine
Gallery
Erythrina stricta flower.jpg
Erythrina stricta Nepal.JPG
Mandaar (Hindi- मन्दार) (4520016605).jpg
Erythrina stricta, AJT Johnsingh. P1000628.jpg
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q13114835
stricta
Trees of Asia
Taxa named by William Roxburgh