Taxon: Cerbera manghas L.

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Common names:

• beach milkwood   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• dogbane   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• dogbone   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• grey milkwood   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Madagascar ordeal-bean   (Source: Poison Hawaii [as Tanghinia venenifera]) – English
  
• pink-eyed cerbera   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rubbertree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sea-mango   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2):15) – English
  
• hai mang guo   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mifukuragi   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• bentan   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2):15) – Malay
  
• bintaru   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2):15) – Malay
  
• klippmangrove   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Fuels: charcoal   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: fish   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Cerbera manghas from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania - Pemba
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong [s.], Guangxi [s.], Hainan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia; Pitcairn
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu; Wallis and Futuna Islands

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Arnold, H. L. 1968. Poisonous plants of Hawaii. [= Tanghinia venenifera].
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1967–. Flore de la Nouvelle Caledonie et dependances.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. 1999. Series of revisions of Apocynaceae XLVII. The genus Cerbera L. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 98–3:21.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed.
• Royen, P. van et al. 1964–1970. Manual of the forest trees of Papua and New Guinea.
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Valkenburg, J. L. C. H. van & N. Bunyapraphatsara, eds. 2001. Medicinal and poisonous plants 2. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(2):154.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cerbera manghas.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cerbera manghas.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cerbera manghas.

Synonyms:

• (=) Cerbera venenifera (Poir.) Steud.
  
• (=) Tanghinia venenifera Poir.
  

Check other web resources for Cerbera manghas L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

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