Pisonia excelsa Blume

 
  • Family : NYCTAGINACEAE
    (Four-O'clock Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BOOGANBEL FAMILY (बूगनबेल फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System IV) : Nyctaginaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Cedrota guianensis Blanco; Labordia fauriei H.Lév.; Bougainvillea racemosa Blanco; Calpidia excelsa (Blume) Heimerl; Calpidia nishimurae (Koidz.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson; Calpidia pancheriana Heimerl; Pisonia aruensis Barg.-Petr.; Ceodes excelsa (Blume) Skottsb.; Pisonia gammillii Merr.; Pisonia macrocarpa C.Presl; Pisonia mooriana F.Muell.; Pisonia nishimurae Koidz.; Pisonia umbellata Seem.; Pisonia umbellifera (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Seem.; Pisonia viscosa Seem.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ceodes umbellifera J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
  • Habit : Shrub or Tree
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : The tree rarely flowers in India.
  • Key identification features : Erect shrub or small tree without spines; Leaves alternate, opposite or clustered, blade mostly elliptic; Flowersmostly bisexual, in terminal leafless cyme-like panicles; Flower tube greenish-white, bell-shaped, with brown hairs, tip 5-lobed, Stamens 7-10; Fruit 2-4 cm long, 5-ribbed, contracted below the withered upper perianth; viscid but without glandular hairs.
  • Distribution :
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands, Alexandra river bank, East-West road in Great Nicobar Island
  • Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Islands, Christmas Island, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hainan, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Marquesas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, New South Wales, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Pi
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Islands, Christmas Island, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hainan, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Marquesas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, New South Wales, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Pi
  • Literature :
    • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 222
    • B. K. Sinha. (1999). Flora of Great Nicobar Island (P. K. Hajra & P. S. N. Rao, Eds.). Botanical Survey of India.
  • Read more :
  • Permalink : https://indiatrees-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pisonia excelsa
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Trees and Vegetation Types. Pisonia excelsa. Downloaded on 4 October 2026.

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