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Aleurites moluccana

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Identification
Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aleurites moluccana
Common name
  • candle nut tree; Indian walnut., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ALEURITES triloba Forst. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ALEURITES triloba Forst. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Char. Gen. 112, t. 56. —Forst. Prodr. 68; Hemsl. in Kew Bulletin, 1906, 121.
ALEURITES moluccana Willd. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. iv. 590; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 723, and in Mart. Fl. Bras. xi. ii. 304, t. 45; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 128; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 384; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenfam. iii. 5, 73, fig. 44; Drake del Castillo, Fl. Polyn. Franç. 183; Urban, Symb. Antill. iv. 348; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euphorb.-Jatroph. 129.
ALEURITES commutata Geiseler [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Crot. Monogr. 82.
ALEURITES Ambinux Pers. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Syn. ii. 587.
ALEURITES cordifolia Steud. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, i. 49, not Dryandra cordata, Thunb.
ALEURITES lobata Blanco [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Filip, ed. i. 756.
ALEURITES lanceolata Blanco [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 757.
Camirium cordifolium Gærtn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fruct. ii. 195, t. 125, fig. 2.
Camirium oleosum Reinw. ex Blume [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Cat. Gew. Buitenz. 104.
Jatropha moluccana Linn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1006.
Information
A large tree; branchlets scurfy stellate-puberulous, at length glabrous. Leaves entire, 3–5-lobed or rarely with a few coarse teeth, ovate or when lobed suborbicular in outline, truncate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 2 1/2–9 in. long, 2–5 in. broad, with 2 sessile rounded contiguous glands at the base, but none at the base of each sinus formed by the leaf-lobes, subchartaceous, digitately 3–5-nerved from the base, pubescent with stellate hairs on both surfaces when young, at length becoming glabrous; transverse nerves faint, more or less branched and not parallel; petiole up to 6 in. long, shortly stellate-puberulous; stipules deciduous. Cymes crowded at the apex of each shoot, densely stellate-tomentellous; branches ascending; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts small. Male flowers: buds ovoid, obtuse, about 1 lin. long, tomentellous. Calyx 2-lobed to the base; segments broadly ovate, obtuse, 1 1/4 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, stellate-puberulous outside. Petals spathulate-oblanceolate, obtuse, 3 lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. broad, glabrous except for a few hairs on the inside at the base. Stamens about 20; outer filaments free, very short, the inner connate towards the base, all (with the receptacle) pubescent; anthers 1/4 lin. long. Female flowers: Calyx and petals as in the male, but larger. Disk small, crenulate. Ovary subglobose, tomentellous; styles very short, erect, glabrous. Fruits (Pax) fleshy, nearly 2 1/2 in. in diam., slightly 4-grooved, glabrous, 1–2-seeded. Seeds acute, wrinkled.
Range
A native of Malaya and Polynesia, and naturalised in many tropical countries.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 178!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. cultivated at Mambone, Johnson, 14!Cameroons Upper Guinea Winkler, 58A.
Notes
Mallotus Melleri, Sim, Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa, 107, not of Müll. Arg. (Sim, 5560), possibly belongs here.

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