Taxon: Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa

• the 10 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• bendytree   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• corktree   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Indian tuliptree   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• milo   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:251.) – English
  
• Pacific rosewood   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:251.) – English
  
• Polynesian rosewood   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• porlia-tree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• portia-tree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• seaside mahoe   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Seychelles rosewood   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• tuliptree   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• umbrella-tree   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• tong mian   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• arbre ombrelle   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• bois de rose d'Océanie   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• kalfata   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• motel debou   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• porché   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• Küsten-Tropeneibisch   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• bela-sombra   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  
• pau-rosa   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  
• tespésia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• mtakawa   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Swahili
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251-252. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251-252. 1997)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251-252. 1997)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251-252. 1997)
  
• Materials: fiber   (for caulking & rope fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251-252. 1997)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (obtained from flowers & fruits fide Plantation Trees)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251-252. 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251-252. 1997)
  
• Social: religious/secular   (considered a sacred tree in some Pacific regions fide Pl Res SEAs 11:251. 1997)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Ghana; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Hainan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [coasts]; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar; Maldives
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [n.], Western Australia [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Yucatan
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Vanuatu
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela - Falcon
  Western South America: Colombia

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Dale, I. R. & P. J. Greenway. 1961. Kenya trees & shrubs.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• 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.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• 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). 11:251–252.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe. 86.
• Fryxell, P. A. 1988. Malvaceae of Mexico. Syst. Bot. Monogr. 25:441–443.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jardín Botánico Nacional. 1998–. Flora de la República de Cuba.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Luna, R. K. 1996. Plantation trees.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Paul, T. K. & M. P. Nayar. 1988. Malvaceae. In: Botanical Survey of India, Fascicles of flora of India. 19:225–226.
• Proctor, G. R. 1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XI.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thespesia populnea.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Hibiscus populneoides Roxb.
  
• (≡) Hibiscus populneus L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Thespesia macrophylla Blume
  
• (=) Thespesia populneoides (Roxb.) Kostel.
  

Check other web resources for Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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