Taxon:
Justicia adhatoda L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:15. 1753
Verified:
05/23/2007
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. Note: = Adhatoda vasica Nees
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Common names
English
Malabar-nut – Malabar-nut-tree – pavettia – India
adotodai – India (Bengali)
basak – India (Sanskrit)
vasaka – Swedish
malabarnöt – Transcribed Chinese
ya zui hua –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bhutan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Nepal | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Pakistan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Jawa | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. in tropics |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. in tropics |
6 | Other | | | | | exact native range obscure |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
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MALESIA:
Indonesia [Jawa], Malaysia
Cultivated
(widely cult. in tropics)
Naturalized
(widely natzd. in tropics)
Other
(exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | boundary/barrier/support | | Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):329. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Environmental | ornamental | fide Wealth India RM ed2, 1:79. 1985, as Adhatoda zeylanica | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1985-1992. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials (revised edition). |
Environmental | soil improver | | Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):329. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Medicines | source of vasicine | | Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):329. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Medicines | source of vasicine | | Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs |
Medicines | source of vasicine | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |
Medicines | source of vasicine | | Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. 1988. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23) |
Non-vertebrate poisons | plant pest control | as Adhatoda zeylanica | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1985. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials (revised edition). 1:76-79. |