Taxon: Antidesma bunius (L.) Spreng.

Common names:

• bignay   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• bignay China-laurel   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Chinese-laurel   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• currant-tree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Herbert River-cherry   (Source: Econ Pl Aust [as A. dallachyanum]) – English
  
• Queensland-cherry   (Source: Websters Dict [as A. dallachyanum]) – English
  
• salamander-tree   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 2:78.) – English
  
• wild cherry   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wu yue cha   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• salamanderboom   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• antidesme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• lorbeerblättriger Flachsbaum   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Salamanderbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• bignai   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Zander ed14)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Pl Res SEAs 2:78. 1991)
  
• Human food: fruit   (bitter to some but sweet to others fide Pl Book)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide F Thailand)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Mabberleys Pl Book)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

More:

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Jiangxi, Xizang, Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh [s.], West Bengal; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar [Andaman Islands]
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Borneo; Christmas Island; Indonesia - Celebes, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland [n.e.?]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Society Islands

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba
  Mesoamerica: Honduras

References:

• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1975. The Euphorbiaceae of Borneo. Kew Bull. add. ser., 4:209.
• Airy Shaw, H. K. 1980. The Euphorbiaceae of New Guinea. Kew Bull. add. ser., 8:211.
• Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty. 2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Hoffmann, P. 2005. Antidesma in Malesia and Thailand.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. [= A. dallachyanum].
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Mabberley, D. J. 2008. Mabberley's plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses, third edition.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. P. 2:78 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= A. dallachyanum].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Antidesma dallachyanum Baill.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Stilago bunius L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Antidesma bunius (L.) Spreng.:

• 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
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruit with exocarp removed: 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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