Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:189. 1753
Verified:
03/02/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
nux-vomica – nux-vomica-tree – strychninetree – Swedish
rävkaketräd – Transcribed Chinese
ma qian zi –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Cambodia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Sri Lanka
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INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Malaysia
Cultivated
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Materials | beads | | Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). |
Materials | wood | | Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 12(1):472. |
Medicines | source of strychnine | | Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988) |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=35851.
Accessed 20 September 2024.