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Genus: Melia
Family: Meliaceae.
Nomen number: 23936
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:384. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 12-Jan-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 03-Feb-2009
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
- chinaberry (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- Persian lilac (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – English
- Sichuan pagoda-tree (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
[as M. toosendan]) – English
- syringa berrytree (Source: Kellerman et al.1988) – English
- bessieboom syringa (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – Afrikaans
- maksering (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – Afrikaans
- chuan liang zi (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
[as M. toosendan]) – Transcribed Chinese
- lian (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- arbre à chapelets (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- lilas des Indes (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- indischer Zedrachbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- persischer Flieder (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- sendan (Source: F JapanOhwi
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- amargoseira-do-Himalaio (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- cinamomo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- sabonete-de-soldado (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- melia (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- paraíso (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China - Anhui [tropical], Fujian, Gansu [s.], Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei [s.], Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi [s.], Shandong, Shanxi [s.], Sichuan, Xizang [s.e.], Yunnan, Zhejiang
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
Indo-China: Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
Malesia: Indonesia - Irian Jaya, Lesser Sunda Islands; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia [tropical]
- PACIFIC
Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands
Naturalized:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Eastern Asia: Japan - Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku - naturalized in s. Europe, Africa, United States (including Hawaii), Mexico, tropical Southern America, West Indies, & Galapagos Is.
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
- Chen Fenghwai & Wu Telin.
1991–. Flora of Guangdong. (F Guangdong)
[= M. toosendan].
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
- Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.
1997. Auxiliary plants.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
11:187–190.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- 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. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
- Iwatsuki, K. et al.
1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
- Jiangsu Institute of Botany.
1982. Flora of Jiangsu. (F Jiangsu)
[= M. toosendan].
- Kellerman, T. S. et al.
1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. (Kellerman et al.)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
- Pennington, T. D. & B. T. Styles.
1981. Meliaceae.
In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr.
28:24.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Melia azedarach L.:
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- 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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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?23936 (09 February 2010)
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