Taxon: Adenanthera pavonina L.

Common names:

• beadtree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Circassian-tree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• coralwood   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• false jequirity   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• false red-sandalwood   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• red beadtree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• red beantree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• red sandalwood-tree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• red-sandalwood   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sandal beadtree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sandalwood-tree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• zumbictree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bois de condori   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Condoribaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• indischer Korallenbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• saga telik   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – Javanese
  
• mai-chek   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – Myanmar
  
• carolina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• árbol del coral   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• korallträd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• ma klam ton   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – Transcribed Thai
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Leg SAsia)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Indochina; Laos; Myanmar; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Uganda
  South Tropical Africa: Angola
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Seychelles
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Christmas Island; Philippines; Singapore
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies

• widely cultivated in tropics

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).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1967–. Flore de la Nouvelle Caledonie et dependances.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. 2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Friedmann, F. 1994. Flore de Seychelles.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Oceanic islands 2. In: George, A. S., ed., Flora of Australia. 50:188.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [introd.].
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• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1:83. [mentions].
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Nielsen, I. & P. Guinet. 1992. Synopsis of Adenanthera (Leguminosae - Mimosoideae). Nordic J. Bot. 12:110.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Sosef, M. S. M. et al., eds. 1998. Timber trees: lesser-known timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 5:50.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Whitmore, T. C., ed. 1972–. Tree flora of Malaya.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Adenanthera pavonina.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Adenanthera pavonina.

Check other web resources for Adenanthera pavonina L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: 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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