Taxon: Asclepias curassavica L.
Genus: Asclepias
Family: Apocynaceae subfamily: Asclepiadoideae tribe: Asclepiadeae subtribe: Asclepiadinae. Also placed in:
Asclepiadaceae
Nomen number: 4469
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:215. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
No species priority site assigned.
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NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
- bastard-ipecac (Source: Pl Book
) – English
- bloodflower (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – English
- bloodflower milkweed (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- false ipecac (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- scarlet milkweed (Source: F Florida
) – English
- ipéca sauvage (Source: Mansf Ency
) – French
- oficial-da-sala (Source: J. Fontella P., p.c.) – Portuguese
- algodãozinho-do-campo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- camará-bravo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capitão-de-sala (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cega-olho (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- erva-de-paina (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- oficial-de-sala (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- paina-de-sapo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- paininha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- algodoncillo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- corcalito (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- flor de sangre (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- yuquillo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
Native:
Other: - origin neotropics & subtropics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Fontella P., J.
1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
4:1754.
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Mabberley, D. J.
1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Reitz, R., ed.
1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Woodson.
1954. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
41:59.
- Wunderlin, R. P.
1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida. (F Florida)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Asclepias curassavica L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- 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:
- 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.
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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?4469 (09 February 2010)
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