Taxon: Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. ex A. Juss.) Müll. Arg.

Common names:

• árbol del caucho   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• arbre de Para   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• caoutchouc   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 18:73)
  
• cauchotero de Pará   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• echter Federharzbaum   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.)
  
• hévéa   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Hevea   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• hevea   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• jebe   (Source: Names Soukup )
  
• natural rubber   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 18:73)
  
• Para rubber   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 18:73)
  
• Parakautschukbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• pau-moeda   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• pau-seringa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• rubbertree   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• seringueira   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• seringueira-branca   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• seringueira-rosada   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• seringueira-roxa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• seringueira-verdadeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• siringa   (Source: Names Soukup )
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: beads; latex/rubber   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document; Pl Book; Bot J Linn Soc 94:315. 1987; Pl Res SEAs 18:73. 2000)
  

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Distributional range:

Native:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Amapa, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Para
  Western South America: Bolivia - Beni [n.]; Colombia - Amazonas; Peru - Huanuco, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Pasco, San Martin

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty. 2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography. (Euphorb India)
• Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 18:73.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. (L Euphorb)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Schultes, R. E. 1987. Econ. Bot. 41:125–148.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
• Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) A:152.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Siphonia brasiliensis Willd. ex A. Juss. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. ex A. Juss.) Müll. Arg.:

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

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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