Taxon:
Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Spreng.
Summary
Place of publication:
Syst. veg. 3:127. 1826
Verified:
11/12/2004
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
- Coode, M. J. E. et al., eds. 1996. A checklist of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Brunei Darussalam
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960-. Flora zambesiaca. URL: http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do Note: lists as Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Roxb.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Barringtonia+racemosa&quantity=1
- Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 Note: lists as Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Roxb.
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: mentions
- Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). URL: http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
- Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
- Llamas, K. A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation
- Payens, J. P. D. W. 1967. A monograph of the genus Barringtonia (Lecythidaceae). Blumea 15:192-198. URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
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Common names
English
brackwater mangrove – cassowary-pine – China-pine – cornbeefwood – Derbyshire-pine – fish-poison-tree – freshwater mangrove – mangobark – mango-pine – powderpuff-tree – French
bonnet d'évêque – manondro – Portuguese
massinhana – Swahili
mtomondo – Transcribed Chinese
yu rui –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Kenya | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Somalia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Mozambique | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | KwaZulu-Natal | |
1 | Native | Africa | Western Indian Ocean | Comoros | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Western Indian Ocean | Madagascar | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Western Indian Ocean | Seychelles | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hainan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Ryukyu Islands | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | s. |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | India | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Papuasia | Papua New Guinea | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Papuasia | Solomon Islands | | |
1 | Native | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Queensland | n.e. |
1 | Native | Pacific | Northwestern Pacific | Micronesia | | |
1 | Native | Pacific | Northwestern Pacific | United States | Guam | |
1 | Native | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | Fiji | | |
1 | Native | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | New Caledonia | | |
1 | Native | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | Samoa | | |
1 | Native | Pacific | Southwestern Pacific | Vanuatu | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Africa
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Somalia
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya, Tanzania
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Mozambique
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SOUTHERN AFRICA:
South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal]
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WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Hainan Sheng]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan [Ryukyu Islands], Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India (s.), Sri Lanka
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PAPUASIA:
Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
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INDO-CHINA:
India [Andaman and Nicobar Islands], Laos, Myanmar, Thailand
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Australasia
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AUSTRALIA:
Australia [Queensland (n.e.)]
Pacific
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NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Micronesia, United States [Guam]
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SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC:
Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Samoa
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Llamas, K. A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation |
Vertebrate poisons | fish | | PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.prota4u.info/ |