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Taxon:  Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit



Summary
Genus:
Leucaena
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:
Mimoseae
Nomen number:
21959
Place of publication:
Taxon 10:54. 1961
Verified:
10/30/1989 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
443 (443  active, 333  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit subsp. glabrata (Rose) Zárate (1 active accession[s])
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit subsp. ixtahuacana C. E. Hughes (0 active accession[s])
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit subsp. leucocephala (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Acacia glauca Willd.
Invalid Designation(s)
Leucaena glauca auct.
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Reference(s)
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Common names
English
coffeebush –
horse-tamarind –
ipil-ipil –
jumbie-bean –
leadtree –
leucaena –
sneakytree –
vi-vi –
white popinac –
Afrikaans
reusewattel –
French
graines de lin –
Hawaiian
koa haole –
Spanish
guaje –
huaxin –
tamarindo silvestre –
uaxim –
Swedish
ipil-ipil –
Transcribed Chinese
yin he huan –
Distribution
Native
Northern America
  • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca (s.e.), Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]
Southern America
  • CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize (n.), Guatemala (w.)
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Cabo Verde, Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Eswatini, South Africa [Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga]
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Comoros, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan
  • PAPUASIA: Solomon Islands
  • INDO-CHINA: India [Andaman and Nicobar Islands]
  • MALESIA: Philippines
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
Europe
  • REGION: Europe (s.)
Northern America
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States [Guam, Northern Mariana Islands]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, Kiribati [Line Islands], French Polynesia
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, Kiribati [Gilbert Islands], New Caledonia, Niue, Nauru, Tonga, United States [American Samoa], Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Samoa
Southern America
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador [Galápagos]
Economic Uses


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