Taxon: Calophyllum inophyllum L.

Common names:

• Alexandrian-laurel   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 5:123.) – English
  
• balltree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• beach calophyllum   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• beach touriga   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• beautyleaf   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Borneo-mahogany   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 5:123.) – English
  
• Indian doomba oiltree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Indian-laurel   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• laurelwood   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• satin touriga   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• tacamahac-tree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• alexandrinischer Lorbeer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• kamani   (Source: web document) – Hawaiian
  
• punnaga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• palo de Santa María   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• palo María   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• undi   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):123-124. 1993)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):123-124. 1993)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):123-124. 1993)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: gum/resin   (fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):124. 1993)
  
• Materials: lipids   (fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):124. 1993)
  
• Materials: wood   (source of "beach inophyllum" timber fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):124. 1993)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):124. 1993; F India)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Calophyllum inophyllum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania [incl. Pemba]
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Hainan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.]; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands, Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Samoa

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Craib, W. G. & A. F. G. Kerr, eds. 1925–1962. Florae siamensis enumeratio.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• El Bassam, N. 1998. Energy plant species. 23.
• Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 2000. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis, ed. 2.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Smith, A. C. & S. P. Darwin. 1974. Studies of Pacific Island plants: 28. The Guttiferae of the Fijian Region. J. Arnold Arbor. 55:223–226.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 5(1):123–124.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Stevens, P. F. 1974. Austral. J. Bot. 22: 374–375.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Calophyllum inophyllum.

Check other web resources for Calophyllum inophyllum L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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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