Details for: PI 110176, Calotropis gigantea (L.) W. T. Aiton, No. 3068

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Calotropis gigantea (L.) W. T. Aiton

Top Name:

No. 3068

Origin:

Collected – Venezuela

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

15 Mar 1935

PI Assigned:

1935

Inventory Volume:

122
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Calotropis gigantea (L.) W. T. Aiton

Top Name:

No. 3068

Origin:

Collected – Venezuela

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

15 Mar 1935

PI Assigned:

1935

Source History

Collected

16 February 1935.
Venezuela
Locality: Road between Caracas and Cabo Blanco

Collector(s):

Archer, W.A., Bureau of Plant Industry - USDA

Accession Names and Identifiers

No. 3068

Type: Collector identifier

Narrative

Calotropis gigantea (L.) W. T. Aiton

Genus:

Calotropis

Family:

Apocynaceae

Subfamily:

Asclepiadoideae

Tribe:

Asclepiadeae

Subtribe:

Asclepiadinae

Nomen number:

8652

Place of publication:

Hortus kew. ed. 2, 2:78. 1811

Comment:

the generic treatment and the species description in Hortus kewensis is not attributed to "Brown mss." so W. T. Aiton is the author of the name (see Shenzhen ICN Art. 46 Ex. 25)

Verified:

07/07/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Basionym
Asclepias gigantea L.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	bowstring-hemp	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English	crownflower	1	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
English	crownplant	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English	giant milkwood	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	giant-milkweed	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	arbre à soie	2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
French	mercure végétal	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	mudar	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Mudarpflanze	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
India (Hindi)	madar	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	lechoso	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	kronbuske	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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