Details for: PI 27568, Bombax ceiba L.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Bombax ceiba L.

Origin:

Collected – Sri Lanka

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

11 Apr 1910

PI Assigned:

1910

Inventory Volume:

23
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Bombax ceiba L.

Origin:

Collected – Sri Lanka

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

11 Apr 1910

PI Assigned:

1910

Source History

Collected

Sri Lanka

Collector(s):

Perkins, A.J., Jackson and Perkins

Accession Names and Identifiers

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)

Annotations

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 26 Mar 1996, from Bombax malabaricum DC. to Bombax ceiba L.