Taxon: Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit

See also subordinate taxa:

• Leucaena leucocephala subsp. glabrata (no accessions)
• Leucaena leucocephala subsp. ixtahuacana (no accessions)
• Leucaena leucocephala subsp. leucocephala (no accessions)

Common names:

• coffeebush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• horse-tamarind   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• ipil-ipil   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• jumbie-bean   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• leadtree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• leucaena   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sneakytree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• vi-vi   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• white popinac   (Source: Leg Tex ) – English
  
• reusewattel   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• yin he huan   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• graines de lin   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• koa haole   (Source: Websters Dict ) – Hawaiian
  
• guaje   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• huaxin   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• tamarindo silvestre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• uaxim   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ipil-ipil   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:150. 1992)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:175. 1997, pulp for the manufacture of paper)
  
• Materials: potential as tannin/dyestuff   (fide Trop Leg)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Leucaena leucocephala from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca [s.e.], Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize [n.]; Guatemala [w.]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Equatorial Guinea; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Mauritius; Reunion; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar; Maldives
  Malesia: Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Europe [s.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia; Kiribati - Line Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; Kiribati - Gilbert Islands; Nauru; New Caledonia; Niue; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• also cultivated

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:150.
• Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Brewbaker, J. L. 1987. Species in the genus Leucaena. Leucaena Res. Rep. 7(2):15.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 11:175–180.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Hughes, C. E. 1998. Leucaena: a genetic resources handbook. Trop. Forest. Pap. Commonw. Forest. Inst. 37:182.
• Hughes, C. 1998. Monograph of Leucaena (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 55:107.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Isely, D. 1973. Leguminosae of the United States: I. Subfamily Mimosoideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(1):95.
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar. 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source. Phytologia 85:106.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shaw, E. A. & B. G. Schubert. 1976. A reinterpretation of Leucaena and Lysiloma. J. Arnold Arbor. 57:113.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Turner, B. L. 1959. The legumes of Texas.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zárate P., S. 1984. Taxonomic revision of the genus Leucaena from Mexico. Bull. Groupe Int. Étude Mimosoideae 12:29.
• Zárate P., S. 1987. Taxonomic identity of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit with a new combination. Phytologia 63:304–306.
• Zárate P., S. 1994. Revisión del género Leucaena Benth. en México. Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 65:124.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Acacia glauca Willd.
  
• Leucaena glabrata Rose [≡ Leucaena leucocephala subsp. glabrata]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Leucaena glauca auct.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Mimosa leucocephala Lam. [≡ Leucaena leucocephala subsp. leucocephala]
  

Check other web resources for Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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