Details for: TARS 1207, Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd., Candleberry tree

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.

Top Name:

Candleberry tree

Origin:

Donated – Belgium

Maintained:

Tropical Agriculture Research Station

Received by NPGS:

Dec 1920

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Cutting	1 count		TARS 12072 PL

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Distributed as: Seeds, Available: Year-round

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.

Top Name:

Candleberry tree

Origin:

Donated – Belgium

Maintained:

Tropical Agriculture Research Station

Received by NPGS:

Dec 1920

Source History

Donated

December 1920.
Belgium
Comment: Agriculture de Laeken, 8 direction
Donor(s):

Ministere des Colonies - Belgique

Accession Names and Identifiers

Candleberry tree

Type: Local name

Nuez de India, Nogal, (P.R.)

Type: Local name

Varnish tree

Type: Local name

TARS 12072

Type: Inventory

Narrative

Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.

Genus:

Aleurites

Family:

Euphorbiaceae

Subfamily:

Crotonoideae

Tribe:

Aleuritideae

Subtribe:

Aleuritinae

Nomen number:

2191

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 4(1):590. 1805 "moluccana"

Protologue link:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/671260

Comment:

a masculine genus according to Shenzhen ICN Art. 62.4

Verified:

01/28/2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Basionym
Jatropha moluccana L.

Autonym(s)
Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd. var. moluccanus

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Aleurites javanicus Gand.
Aleurites pentaphyllus Wall. ex Langeron
Aleurites remyi Sherff
Aleurites trilobus J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	candleberry		1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English	candlenut		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	candlenut-tree		1	Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa. Note: lists as "moluccana"
English	Indian-walnut		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
English	lumbangtree		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
English	varnishtree		1	Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
French	noyer de bancoul		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
French	noyer des Moluques		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
German	Lichtnußbaum		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
Hawaiian	kukui	http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/Aleurites-kukui.pdf	2	Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource). Note: Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawai'i http://www.traditionaltree.org/
Portuguese	noz-da-Índia		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
Portuguese (Brazil)	nogueira-brasileira		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	nogueira-da-Índia		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	nogueira-de-iguape		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanish	calumbán		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
Spanish	camirio		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
Spanish	lumbán		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: lists as "moluccana"
Swahili	mkaa	as "Aleurites moluccana"	2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: lists as "moluccana"

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