Taxon: Delonix regia (Bojer) Raf.

Common names:

• flamboyant   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• flame-of-the-forest   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• flametree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• peacock-flower   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• royal poinciana   (Source: Trop Leg ) – English
  
• flamboiã   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• árbol de fuego   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• flamboyán   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed13; Du Puy et al., Kew Bull. 1995)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar [n. & w.]

• widely cultivated

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Du Puy, D. J. et al. 1995. A revision of Phylloxylon (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Indigofereae). Kew Bull. 50:466.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [cult.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Isely, D. 1975. Leguminosae of the United States: II. Subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(2):151.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. [cult.].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. [cult.].
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. [cult.].

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Delonix regia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Delonix regia.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Poinciana regia Bojer (basionym)
  (previously associated with 13 accessions)

Check other web resources for Delonix regia (Bojer) Raf.:

• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Flowering tree: University of Florida IFAS Extension image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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