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Pterocarpus indicus is a Pterocarpus species found in Cambodia,

southernmost China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea,
the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and
Vietnam.
Pterocarpus indicus was one of two species (the other being Eysenhardtia
polystachya) utilized as a source for the traditional diuretic lignum
nephriticum, which was popular from the 16th to 18th centuries. Many
Pterocarpus indicus populations are critically endangered. It is extinct in
Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and perhaps Peninsular Malaysia.
Governor-General Frank Murphy of the Insular Government of the
Philippine Islands named it the national tree of the Philippines in 1934 with
Proclamation No. 652.