Taxon: Mangifera indica L.

Common names:

• common mango   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Indian mango   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• mango   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• amba   (Source: L Oman ) – Transliterated Arabic
  
• mangue   (Source: CultTropS ) – French
  
• manguier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Mango   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• Mangobaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Mangopalme   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• manga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• mangueira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• manga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mango   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Trop Flow Pl)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Mangifera indica from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Assam
  Indo-China: Myanmar

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• 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).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kostermans, A. J. G. H. & J. M. Bompard. 1993. The Mangoes. Their botany, nomenclature, horticulture and utilization. 88–107.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Llamas, K. A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Ross, J. 1972. The flora of Natal.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mangifera indica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mangifera indica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mangifera indica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Mangifera mekongensis anon.
  

Check other web resources for Mangifera indica L.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Mangifera indica cultivars
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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