Taxon: Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.
Genus: Aleurites
Family: Euphorbiaceae subfamily: Crotonoideae tribe: Aleuritideae subtribe: Aleuritinae.
Nomen number: 2191
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 4(1):590. 1805 "moluccana"
Comment: a masculine genus according to Vienna ICBN Art. 62.4 Name verified on: 28-Jan-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-May-2007
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA). Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- candleberry (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- candlenut (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- candlenut-tree (Source: F TE Afr
) – English
- Indian-walnut (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- lumbangtree (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- varnishtree (Source: CRC MedHerbs
) – English
- noyer de bancoul (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- noyer des Moluques (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Lichtnußbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- kukui (Source: web document) – Hawaiian
- noz-da-Índia (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- nogueira-brasileira (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- nogueira-da-Índia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- nogueira-de-iguape (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- calumbán (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- camirio (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- lumbán (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- mkaa (Source: PROTABASE
[as A. "moluccana"]) – Swahili
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Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China Eastern Asia: Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India - Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal; Sri Lanka Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - Queensland [n.]
Naturalized: - widely naturalized in tropics
Cultivated: - widely cultivated in tropics
Other: - exact native range obscure
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
["moluccana"].
- Airy Shaw, H. K.
1975. The Euphorbiaceae of Borneo.
Kew Bull.
add. ser., 4:29. ["moluccana"].
- Airy Shaw, H. K.
1980. The Euphorbiaceae of New Guinea.
Kew Bull.
add. ser., 35:596. ["moluccana"].
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1967–. Flore de la Nouvelle Caledonie et dependances.
["moluccana"].
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr.
1963–1968. Flora of Java.
["moluccana"].
- Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty.
2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography.
- Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
["moluccana"].
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
["moluccana"].
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
["moluccana"].
- Duke, J. A.
1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Elevitch, C. R., ed.
The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
["moluccana"].
- Govaerts, R. et al.
2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
["moluccana"].
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann.
1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
[poisonous].
- 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.
["moluccana"].
- Robertson, S. A.
1989. Flowering plants of Seychelles.
["moluccana"].
- Schultes, R. E.
1987. Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
94:80. ["moluccana"].
- Smith, A. C.
1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
["moluccana"].
- Smith, R. J.
Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
- Stuppy, W. et al.
1999. Revision of the genera Aleurites, Reutealis and Vernicia (Euphorbiaceae).
Blumea
44:80. ["moluccana"].
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
["moluccana"].
- Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds.
1991. Edible fruits and nuts.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
2:371.
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
1986–. European garden flora.
["moluccana"].
- Webster's third new international dictionary.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.:
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
- 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.
Images:
- Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- More:
- 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.
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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?2191 (20 May 2013)
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