Taxon: Ficus elastica Roxb. ex Hornem.
Genus: Ficus section: Conosycea
Family: Moraceae tribe: Ficeae.
Nomen number: 70291
Place of publication: Hort. bot. hafn. suppl. 7. 1819 (W. Roxburgh, Hort. bengal. 65. 1814, nom. nud.)
Comment: place of publication verified from original literature Name verified on: 15-Jan-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-May-2009
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA). Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
- India rubber fig (Source: AH 505
) – English
- Indian rubbertree (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- karet-tree (Source: Mansf Ency
) – English
- rubberplant (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- yin du rong (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- arbre á caoutchouc (Source: Pl Res SEAs
18:69) – French
- figuier élastique (Source: Mansf Ency
) – French
- Gummibaum (Source: Zander ed17
) – German
- atta bor (Source: Mansf Ency
) – India (Hindi)
- figueira-indiana (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- seringueira (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- seringueira-de-jardim (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cauchú comun (Source: Mansf Ency
) – Spanish
- higuiera cauchera (Source: Mansf Ency
) – Spanish
- More:
Native:
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.e.]; Nepal Indo-China: Myanmar Malesia: Indonesia - Java, Sumatra; Malaysia [Malaya]
Cultivated:
- Abbiw, D. K.
1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
- Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds.
2000. Plants producing exudates.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
18:69. [lists as F. elastica Roxb.].
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
- 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)
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Howard, R.
1988. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
4:61.
- Krüssmann, G.
1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
- Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
[lists as F. elastica Roxb.].
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Ficus elastica Roxb. ex Hornem.:
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- 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.
Check other databases for images:
- PlantSystematics.org
-
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?70291 (09 February 2010)
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