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Taxon:  Cordia myxa L.



Summary
Genus:
Cordia
Family:
Boraginaceae
Subfamily:
Cordioideae
Nomen number:
11489
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:190. 1753, nom. cons.
Comment:
conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.9 & App. IV) through conservation of the genus Cordia
Verified:
03/31/2012 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Bennett, M. Pulmonarias and the Borage family. 2003 198.
  2. Burkill, H. M. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004
  3. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
  4. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  5. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
  6. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  7. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  8. Jardin botanique national de Belgique. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale). 1967-
  9. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
  10. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  11. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  12. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  13. Rapisarda, A. et al. 1997. Micromorphological study on leaves of some Cordia (Boraginaceae) species used in traditional medicine. Econ. Bot. 51:385-391. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231
  14. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  15. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. Flora of Iraq. 1966-
  16. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  17. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
Assyrian-plum –
clammy-cherry –
glueberry –
Indian-cherry –
sapistan –
sapistan-tree –
sebastan-tree –
sebesten-plum –
selu –
small cordia –
Sudan-teak –
French
bois savon –
sébestier –
Portuguese
sebesteira –
sebesteiro-do-Sudão –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran s.?
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
4Naturalized    widely natzd. in paleotropics
6Other    possibly nowhere truly native
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • WESTERN ASIA: Iran (s.?)
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan
Naturalized (widely natzd. in paleotropics)
Other (possibly nowhere truly native)
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide Use Pl WT Afr; F Pak) –


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