Taxon:
Justicia adhatoda L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:15. 1753
Verified:
05/23/2007
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
- http://www.skud.info
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. Flora of Java. 1963-1968 Note: = Adhatoda vasica Nees
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959- Note: = Adhatoda vasica Nees
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials (revised edition). New Delhi. 1985-1992
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Common names
English
Malabar-nut – Malabar-nut-tree – pavettia – India
adotodai – India (Bengali)
basak – India (Sanskrit)
vasaka – Swedish
malabarnöt – Transcribed Chinese
ya zui hua –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bhutan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Nepal | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Pakistan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Java | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. in tropics |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. in tropics |
6 | Other | | | | | exact native range obscure |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
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MALESIA:
Indonesia [Java], Malaysia
Cultivated
(widely cult. in tropics)
Naturalized
(widely natzd. in tropics)
Other
(exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
source of vasicine (fide Import Medicinal Pl; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):329. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) – Non-vertebrate poisons
plant pest control (fide Wealth India RM ed2, 1:79. 1985, as Adhatoda zeylanica) –