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Taxon:  Melia azedarach L.



Summary
Genus:
Melia
Family:
Meliaceae
Nomen number:
23936
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:384. 1753
Verified:
01/12/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 1  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Melia azedarach L. var. japonica (G. Don) Makino
Melia azedarach L. var. sempervirens L.
Melia candollei A. Juss.
Melia floribunda Carriere
Melia toosendan Siebold & Zucc.
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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  3. Balick, M. J. et al. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85. 2000
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  6. Chen Fenghwai & Wu Telin. Flora of Guangdong. 1991- Note: = M. toosendan
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Common names
English
Cape-lilac –
chinaberry –
chinaberry-tree –
Persian-lilac –
Sichuan pagoda-tree –
syringa berrytree –
Texas umbrella-tree –
tulip-cedar –
umbrella-cedar –
umbrella-tree –
white-cedar –
Afrikaans
bessieboom syringa –
maksering –
French
arbre à chapelets –
lilas des Indes –
German
indischer Zedrachbaum –
persischer Flieder –
Japanese Rōmaji
sendan –
Portuguese
amargoseira-do-Himalaio –
Portuguese (Brazil)
cinamomo –
sabonete-de-soldado –
Spanish
melia –
paraíso –
Swedish
zedrak –
Transcribed Chinese
chuan liang zi –
lian –
Transcribed Korean
meolguseulnamu –
Distribution
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Anhui (tropical), Fujian, Gansu (s.), Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei (s.), Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi (s.), Shandong, Shanxi (s.), Sichuan, Xizang (s.e.), Yunnan, Zhejiang]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal
  • INDO-CHINA: Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia [Lesser Sunda Islands, Irian Jaya], Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales (e.), Queensland, Western Australia (n.), Northern Territory (n.)]
Pacific
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Solomon Islands
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
  • REGION: Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands]
Asia-Temperate
  • EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
Europe
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Croatia, Italy (incl. Sicily)
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France
Northern America
  • REGION: Mexico, United States
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
  • NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Northern Mariana Islands, Palau
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, Pitcairn, French Polynesia
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tonga
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • CARIBBEAN: West Indies
  • MESOAMERICA: Guatemala, Nicaragua
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador [Galapagos Islands], Peru
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_41.html,) –
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce, as M. toosendan; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Non-vertebrate poisons
potential for plant pest control (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:188, 190. 1997) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Lampe & McCann) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001) –


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