     
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.
- 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
- More:
- More:
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
- 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)
- More:
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
-
 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?20692 (09 February 2010)
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