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Taxon: Jatropha curcas L.

Genus: Jatropha
Family: Euphorbiaceae subfamily: Crotonoideae tribe: Jatropheae.
Nomen number: 20692
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1006. "Gurcas"; 2: errata. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 23-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Aug-2008
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • Barbados-nut   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • bubble-bush   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  • jatropha   (Source: web document) – English
  • physicnut   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • purgenut   (Source: Kellerman et al.1988) – English
  • purgingnut   (Source: Handb Nuts ) – English
  • fève d'enfer   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • grand pignon d'Inde   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • gros ricin   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • médicinier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • médicinier béni   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  • médicinier barrière   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  • médicinier purgatif   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  • pignon d'Inde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • purghère   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Purgiernuß   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • ratanjyor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  • galamaluco   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  • grão de maluco   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  • purgueira   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  • ricino major   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  • manduri-graça   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • pinhão-de-cerca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • pinhão-de-purga   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • pinhão-manso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • pinhão-paraguaio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • frailejón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • piñón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • piñón blanco   (Source: J.A. Duke, p.c. 1999) – Spanish
  • tártago   (Source: F PuertoR ) – Spanish
  • mbono   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Swahili
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Mexico
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
    Brazil: Brazil
    Western South America: Bolivia; Peru
    Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized elsewhere in New World & Old World tropics

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated elsewhere in New World & Old World tropics

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty. 2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography. (Euphorb India)
  • Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85. (L Belize NY)
  • Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1992. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. (Esp Veg Prom) 7:542–576.
  • Delgado-Montoya, J. L. & E. Parado-Tejeda. 1989. Potential multipurpose agroforestry crops identified for the Mexican tropics. In: Wickens, G. E. et al., eds., New crops for food and industry. (New Crops Food Ind) 166–168.
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. (Handb Nuts)
  • Duke, J. A. 1999. pers. comm. [re. common names].
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. (L Euphorb)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Heller, J. 1996. Physic nut. Jatropha curcas L. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. (Prom Underused Crops) 1:1–66.
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. (Kellerman et al.)
  • Killeen, T. J. et al. 1993. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. (Trees Bolivia)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-. (F Hispan)
  • Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. (F PuertoR)
  • Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos - on-line resource. (TROPICOS)
  • Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):324.
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
  • 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)
  • Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999 (L Argent)
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Check other databases for Jatropha curcas L.:

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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.

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