Taxon: Phyllanthus emblica L.

• the 14 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• emblic   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• emblic myrobalan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Indian-gooseberry   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• groseillier de Ceylan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• myrobalan emblic   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Amblabaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• amla   (Source: Econ Bot 50:270-279.) – India
  
• aonla   (Source: CultTropS ) – India
  
• mirobalano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• nelí   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• emblika   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide CultTropS; F Bhutan)
  
• Fuels: potential as fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: lipids   (for cosmetics fide Mabberleys Pl Book)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F Bhutan; Econ Bot 50:271. 1996; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):388. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India - Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar [n.]; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra; Malaysia

• also cultivated in tropics

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1971. The Euphorbiaceae of Siam. Kew Bull. 26:319.
• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1975. The Euphorbiaceae of Borneo. Kew Bull. add. ser., 4:183.
• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1981. The Euphorbiaceae of Sumatra. Kew Bull. 36:337.
• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1982. The Euphorbiaceae of Central Malesia (Celebes, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Is.). Kew Bull. 37:32.
• 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).
• Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty. 2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• 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.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Kala, C. P. et al. 2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India. Biodivers. & Conservation 13:459.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Mabberley, D. J. 2008. Mabberley's plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses, third edition. 660. [re. use as lipid and cosmetic dye].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. [= Emblica].
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):388.
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shankar, U. et al. 1996. Econ. Bot. 50:270–279.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phyllanthus emblica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Phyllanthus emblica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phyllanthus emblica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Emblica officinalis Gaertn.
  
• (=) Mirobalanus embilica Burm.
  

Check other web resources for Phyllanthus emblica L.:

• 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:

• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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