Selected Species
- Erythrina abyssinica Lam. ex (East Africa)
- Erythrina americana – Colorín, Tzompāmitl (Mexico)
- Erythrina ankaranensis (Madagascar)
- Erythrina atitlanensis
- Erythrina berteroana
- Erythrina burana (Ethiopia)
- Erythrina caffra – Coastal Coral Tree (Southeastern Africa)
- Erythrina corallodendron (Hispaniola, Jamaica)
- Erythrina coralloides – Flame Coral Tree, Naked Coral Tree (Arizona in the United States, Mexico)
- Erythrina crista-galli – Cockspur Coral Tree, ceibo, seíbo, bucaré (Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay)
- Erythrina decora
- Erythrina edulis – Basul (Andes)
- Erythrina eggersii – Cock's-spur, espuela de gallo, piñón espinoso (United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico)
- Erythrina elenae (Cuba)
- Erythrina euodiphylla (Indonesia)
- Erythrina falcata – Brazilian Coral Tree (Brazil)
- Erythrina flabelliformis
- Erythrina fusca – Purple Coral Tree, bois immortelle, bucaré anauco, bucayo, gallito (Pantropical)
- Erythrina haerdii (Tanzania)
- Erythrina hazomboay (Madagascar)
- Erythrina herbacea – Coral Bean, Cherokee Bean, Red Cardinal, Cardinal Spear (Southeastern United States, Northeastern Mexico)
- Erythrina humeana – Natal Coral Tree, Dwarf Coral Tree, Dwarf Kaffirboom, Dwarf Erythrina (South Africa)
- Erythrina lanceolata
- Erythrina latissima
- Erythrina lysistemon – Common Coral Tree, Transvaal Kaffirboom, Lucky Bean Tree (South Africa)
- Erythrina madagascariensis (Madagascar)
- Erythrina megistophylla (Ecuador)
- Erythrina mulungu – Mulungu (Brazil)
- Erythrina perrieri (Madagascar)
- Erythrina poeppigiana – bucare ceibo
- Erythrina polychaeta (Ecuador)
- Erythrina rubrinervia
- Erythrina sacleuxii (Kenya, Tanzania)
- Erythrina sandwicensis – Wiliwili (Hawaii)
- Erythrina schimpffii (Ecuador)
- Erythrina schliebenii – Lake Latumba Erythrina (Thought to be extinct since 1938, but some individuals, believed to be less than fifty, were recently rediscovered in forest remnants on rocky sites in coastal Tanzania (reported in the UK Guardian newspaper 23 March 2012, from a report in the Journal of East African Natural History.)
- Erythrina senegalensis
- Erythrina speciosa (Brazil)
- Erythrina stricta – Mandara (Southeast Asia)
- Erythrina suberosa
- Erythrina tahitensis (Tahiti)
- Erythrina tuxtlana (Mexico)
- Erythrina variegata – Indian Coral Tree, Tiger's Claw, Sunshine Tree, Roluos Tree (Cambodia), deigo (Okinawa), drala (Fiji), madar (Bangladesh), man da ra ba (Tibet), thong lang (Thailand), vông nem (Vietnam)
- Erythrina velutina (Caribbean, South America, Galápagos Islands)
- Erythrina vespertilio – Bat's Wing Coral Tree, Grey Corkwood, "bean tree" (Australia)
- Erythrina zeyheri – Ploughbreaker
Horticultural hybrids:
- Erythrina ×bidwillii
- Erythrina ×sykesii
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