Taxon: Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz

• the 12 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• Asian barringtonia   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• beach barringtonia   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• fish-killer-tree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• fish-poison-tree   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  
• mango-pine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• mangobark   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• árbol de los muertos   (Source: Pl Names ) – Spanish
  
• barringtonia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: fish   (fide F Viti)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Barringtonia asiatica from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania - Zanzibar
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.]; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland [n.]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia - Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu

• AFRICA
  Middle Atlantic Ocean: St. Helena
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Cayman Islands; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British) - Virgin Gorda; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• 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).
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• 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.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• 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.
• Payens, J. P. D. W. 1967. A monograph of the genus Barringtonia (Lecythidaceae). Blumea 15:184–188.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• The Missouri Botanical Garden with others. A Catalogue of the vascular plants of Madagascar (on-line resource).
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Barringtonia asiatica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Barringtonia asiatica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Barringtonia asiatica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Barringtonia speciosa J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Butonica speciosa (J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.) J. St.-Hil.
  
• (≡) Mammea asiatica L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz:

• 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
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• Fruit: 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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