kingdom: Plantae >
subkingdom: Pteridobiotina Britton & Brown >
phylum: Tracheophyta >
class: Magnoliopsida >
order: Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl >
family: Malvaceae Juss. >
subfamily: Helicteroideae (Schott & Endl.) Meisn. >
genus: Helicteres L. >
China (SW-Guangxi, Guizhou, S-Yunnan); Bhutan; India (West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland); Bangladesh; Myanmar (Bago, Mandalay, Sagaing, Yangon, Kachin, Rakhine); Thailand; Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam