Barringtonia asiatica

Barringtonia asiatica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ericales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Lecythidaceae
Subfamilia: Barringtonioideae
Genus: Barringtonia
Species: Barringtonia asiatica

Name

Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz, 1875

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Barringtonia butonica Rumph. ex J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl.: t. 38 (1776).
  • Barringtonia speciosa J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl.: 76 (1776).
  • Butonica speciosa (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Lam., Encycl. 1: 521 (1785).
  • Mitraria commersonia J.F.Gmel., Syst. Nat. ed. 13[bis]: 799 (1791).
  • Barringtonia littorea Oken, Allg. Naturgesch. 3(3): 1925 (1841), nom. illeg.
  • Barringtonia levequii Jard., Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 5: 296 (1857), nom. nud.
  • Agasta asiatica (L.) Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 61 (1875).
  • Agasta indica Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 63 (1875).
  • Agasta splendida Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 60 (1875).
  • Barringtonia senequei Jard., Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, sér. 2, 9: 305 (1875).
  • Michelia asiatica (L.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 241 (1891).
  • Huttum speciosum (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Britten, J. Bot. 39: 67 (1901).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Asia-Tropical Regional: Indian subcontinent Andaman, India, Sri Lanka Regional: Southeastern Asia Malaya Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Cook Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Line Is, Malaya., Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nicobar Is., Niue, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is. Continental: Australasia Regional: Papuasia New Caledonia, New Guinea Regional: Australia Queensland Continental: Africa Regional: Western Indian Ocean Madagascar Regional: Mascareñas Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles Regional: Eastern Africa Tanzania Introduced into: Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Kurz, S. 1875. Preliminary Report on the Forest and other Vegetation of Pegu. 97 pp. + Appendix. A. (cxxxviii pp.) + Appendix B. (95 pp.) + Appendix C. (xxiv pp.) + Appendix E. (34 pp.). Calcutta: C. B. Lewis Baptist Mission Press. BHL. Reference page. : App. A:lxv, App. B::65.

Additional references

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: I–XXV, 1–1192. DOI: 10.5479/si.0081024X.98.1 BHL Reference page. 
• Miers, J. 1875. On the Barringtoniaceæ. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Botany 1(2): 47–118. Plates X-XVIII. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Barringtonia asiatica in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 July 02. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Barringtonia asiatica. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 July 02. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Barringtonia asiatica. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 02 July 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Barringtonia asiatica. Published online. Accessed: July 02 2022.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Barringtonia asiatica in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names

English: Sea Poison Tree,Fish Poison Tree
suomi: Merileikkopähkinä

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