Taxon: Triadica sebifera (L.) Small
Genus: Triadica
Family: Euphorbiaceae subfamily: Euphorbioideae tribe: Hippomaneae subtribe: Hippomaninae.
Nomen number: 410718
Place of publication: Man. s.e. fl. 789. 1933
Name verified on: 12-Sep-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Sep-2000
No species priority site assigned. Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
-
FL(as Sapium sebiferum)*, MS(as Sapium sebiferum)*, PR(as Sapium sebiferum)*, TX*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from

- Link to species profile at

- árbol del sebo (Source: Dict Rehm
as Sapium sebiferum)
- árvore do sebo (Source: PROTABASE
)
- arbre à suif (Source: Dict Rehm
as Sapium sebiferum)
- boiré (Source: Dict Rehm
as Sapium sebiferum)
- candleberry-tree (Source: F LowYangtze
as Sapium sebiferum)
- Chinese tallowtree (Source: World Econ Pl
)
- chinesischer Talgbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
as Sapium sebiferum)
- leiteiro (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Sapium sebiferum)
- pau do sebo (Source: PROTABASE
)
- popcorntree (Source: Rep NCEPPC
as Sapium sebiferum)
- tallowtree (Source: Dict Rehm
as Sapium sebiferum)
- Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter (fide Dict Gard, as Sapium sebiferum; Invasive Pl Spec)
- Human food: oil/fat (fide Cornucopia, as Sapium sebiferum; CultTropS, as Sapium sebiferum; Invasive Pl Spec)
- Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol (fide Goffman & Gomez 1996, as Sapium sebiferum)
- Materials: lipids; tannin/dyestuff; wax; wood (for manufacturing candles and soaps fide Dict Econ Plf, as Sapium sebiferum; PROTABASE)
- Medicines: folklore (fide PROTABASE)
- Weed (fide Rep NCEPPC, as Sapium sebiferum; Invasive Pl Spec)
- More:
- Native:
- AFRICA
Africa [n.]
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China Eastern Asia: Taiwan [natzd.?]
- NORTHERN AMERICA
United States - ALSO
Asia [tropical]
- Other:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty.
2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography. (Euphorb India)
- Campbell, F. T., ed.
1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft) (Rep NCEPPC)
[= Sapium sebiferum].
- Esser, H.-J. et al.
1997. A phylogenetic classification of the Malesian Hippomaneae (Euphorbiaceae).
Syst. Bot.
22:620.
- Esser, H.-J.
1999. A partial revision of the Hippomaneae (Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia.
Blumea
44:197–206.
- Esser, H.-J.
2002. A revision of Triadica Lour. (Euphorbiaceae).
Harvard Pap. Bot.
7:19–21.
- Govaerts, R. et al.
2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. (L Euphorb)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
[= Sapium sebiferum].
- Steward, A. N.
1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. (F LowYangtze)
[= Sapium sebiferum].
- USDA National Agricultural Library.
National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Triadica sebifera (L.) Small:
- 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
- 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.
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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Cite as: 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?410718 (21 November 2009)
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