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Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd.
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Habit: Tree
Jatropha moluccana Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1006. 1753; Aleurites ambinux Persoon; A. commutata Geiseler; A. cordifolia (Gaertner) Steudel; A. javanica Gandoger; A. lanceolata Blanco; A. lobata Blanco; A. triloba J. R. Forster & G. Forster; Camirium cordifolium Gaertner; C. moluccanum (Linnaeus) Kuntze; C. oleosum Reinwardt ex Müller Argoviensis; Juglans comirium Loureiro.
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Isotype for Aleurites moluccana var. floccosa Airy Shaw
Catalog Number: US 3254288
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. Havel
Year Collected: 1962
Locality: Wau, Anderson's logging area., New Guinea, New Guinea Group, Morobe, Papua New Guinea, Asia-Tropical
Elevation (m): 1097 to 1097
- Isotype: Airy Shaw, H. K. 1966. Kew Bull. 20: 26.
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Isotype for Aleurites moluccana var. floccosa Airy Shaw
Catalog Number: US 3254287
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. Havel
Year Collected: 1962
Locality: Wau, Anderson's logging area., New Guinea, New Guinea Group, Morobe, Papua New Guinea, Asia-Tropical
Elevation (m): 1097 to 1097
- Isotype: Airy Shaw, H. K. 1966. Kew Bull. 20: 26.
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Comments: Cultivated.
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Mixed evergreen forests, cultivated on hillsides, at roadsides, and in country villages; 100-1000 m.
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
Rounded Global Status Rank: GU - Unrankable
Reasons: Native to Malesia, precise native range is essentially impossible to determine because of its early spread by man, now widespread in many tropical areas (Wagner et al., 1990).
Seed: Seed-oil is slightly purgative and also a drying substance (siccative).
Tree up to 10 m tall. Young shoots, inflorescences and petioles brown-stellate-tomentose. Leaves ovate, 3-5-veined from the base, entire or up to 5-lobed with a pair of discoid sessile glands at the base of the lamina; petiole 6-22 cm long. Inflorescences broadly conical. Petals 6-8 mm, yellowish-white. Fruit up to 4 × 5.5 cm, shallowly 2-lobed and with 4 ridges.