Taxon: Abrus precatorius L.
Genus: Abrus
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Abreae. Also placed in:
Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 739
Place of publication: Syst. nat. ed. 12, 2:472. 1767
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 21-Oct-1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Sep-2005
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA). Accessions:
3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- coral-beadplant (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- crab's-eye (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- Indian-licorice (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- jequirity (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2
) – English
- jequirity-bean (Source: AH 505
) – English
- licorice-vine (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- love-bean (Source: Kellerman et al.1988) – English
- lucky-bean (Source: Kellerman et al.1988) – English
- minnie-minnies (Source: Kellerman et al.1988) – English
- prayer-beads (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- precatory (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – English
- precatory-bean (Source: AH 505
) – English
- red-beadvine (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- rosary-pea (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- weatherplant (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- weathervine (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- alcaçuz-da-américa (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- assacumirim (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- jequiriti (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- olho-de-cabra-miúdo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- olho-de-pombo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- tento (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda West Tropical Africa: Niger; Togo Southern Africa: Namibia Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan Eastern Asia: Taiwan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia [n.]
- PACIFIC
Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Tuamotu Archipelago Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
Naturalized: - naturalized in neotropics
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
- Boudet, G. et al.
1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. (L Mali)
- Breteler, F. J.
1960. Blumea
10:617.
- Brunel, J. F. et al., eds.
1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames. (F Togo)
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Fosberg, F. R. et al.
1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
- 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].
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
- Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang.
1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117. (Leg Taiwan)
- Kala, C. P. et al.
2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India.
Biodivers. & Conserv.
13:461.
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Kellerman, T. S. et al.
1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. (Kellerman et al.)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Lock, J. M. & J. Heald.
1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. (Leg Indochina)
- Lock, J. M.
1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Sanjappa, M.
1992. Legumes of India. (Leg India)
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Verdcourt, B.
1970. Kew Bull.
24:240.
- Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds.
1989. A selection.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
A:27.
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Abrus precatorius L.:
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
- 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 or nodulation data:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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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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?739 (09 February 2010)
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