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

Common names:

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

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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:

Native:

• 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

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. (Pl SAfr)
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale). (F Afr Centr)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Palmer, E. & N. Pitman. 1972–1973. Trees of southern Africa. (Trees SAfr)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India)
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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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. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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 databases for Flacourtia indica (Burm. f.) Merr.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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