Details for: TARS 1818, Bombax ceiba L., Indian Kapok

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Bombax ceiba L.

Top Name:

Indian Kapok

Origin:

Collected – Philippines

Maintained:

Tropical Agriculture Research Station

Received by NPGS:

13 Jan 1933

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Bombax ceiba L.

Top Name:

Indian Kapok

Origin:

Collected – Philippines

Maintained:

Tropical Agriculture Research Station

Received by NPGS:

13 Jan 1933

Source History

Collected

Philippines

Donated

13 January 1933.
District of Columbia, United States

Donor(s):

Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction

Accession Names and Identifiers

Indian Kapok

Type: Local name

Group: MISC.TARS

Narrative

Bombax ceiba L.

Genus:

Bombax

Family:

Malvaceae

Subfamily:

Bombacoideae

Nomen number:

105274

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:511. 1753, nom. cons.

Comment:

conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Shenzhen ICN Art. 14.3 & App. IV) through conservation of the genus Bombax

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

08/29/1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Bombax quinatum Jacq.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bombacopsis quinata Dugand
Bombax malabaricum DC.
Gossampinus malabaricus (DC.) Merr.
Salmalia malabarica (DC.) Schott & Endl.

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	Indian kapok		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	kapoktree		1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	northern-cottonwood		1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	red cottontree		1	Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
English	red silk cottontree		1	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1250.
English	red silk-cotton	as Bombax malabaricum	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary. Note: = Bombax malabaricum
English	silk cottontree		1	Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
English	simal	as Bombax malabaricum	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary. Note: = Bombax malabaricum
French	bombax		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	fromager		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	indischer Seidenwollbaum		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	roter Seidenwollbaum		2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1250.
Spanish	bombax		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	indiskt dunträd		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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