Taxon: Flacourtia indica (Burm. f.) Merr.

• the 13 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• batoko-plum   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• governor's-plum   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Indian-plum   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Madagascar-plum   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• ramontchi   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• marromse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• prunier de Madagascar   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Ramontchi   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ameixa-de-Madagascar   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• ciruela gobernadora   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support   (as hedge fide F Ceylon; F India)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, Transvaal
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Palmer, E. & N. Pitman. 1972–1973. Trees of southern Africa.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Flacourtia indica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Flacourtia indica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Flacourtia indica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Flacourtia ramontchi L’Hér.
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)
• (=) Flacourtia sepiaria Roxb.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Gmelina indica Burm. f. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Flacourtia indica (Burm. f.) Merr.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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