Calotropis procera

Calotropis procera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gentianales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Asclepiadoideae
Tribus: Asclepiadeae
Subtribus: Asclepiadinae
Genus: Calotropis
Species: Calotropis procera

Name

Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T.Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2: 78 (1811).

Synonyms

Basionym
- Asclepias procera Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1: 305 (1789).
Heterotypic
- Apocynum syriacum S.G. Gmel., Reise Russland 2: 198, 257 (1774).
- Asclepias gigantea Jacq. nom. illeg.
- Calotropis busseana K.Schum., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33. 323 (1903).
- Calotropis gigantea var. procera (Aiton) P.T. Li, J. S. China Agric. Univ., 12(3): 39 (1991).
- Calotropis hamiltonii Wight, Contrib. Ind. Bot. 53 (1834).
- Calotropis heterophylla Wall., Numer. List [Wallich] n. 8217. 1847. nom inval. ?
- Calotropis inflexa Chiov., Atti Ist. Bot. Univ. Pavia, 1936, Ser. IV. vii. (Fl. Somala, III) 139.
- Calotropis persica Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 65: 59 (1918).
- Calotropis procera subsp. hamiltonii (Wight) Ali, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 38(2): 289 (1980).
- Calotropis syriaca (S.G.Gmelin) Woodson, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 17: 148 (1930).
- Calotropis wallichii Wight, Contrib. Ind. Bot. 53 (1834).
- Madorius procerus (Aiton) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 421 (1891).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- Cape Verde Isl. (Santo Antao Isl., Sao Vicente Isl., Santa Luzia Isl., Ilha de Sao Nicolau, Sal Isl., Ilha da Boa Vista, Ilha de Maio, Ilha de Sao Tiago, Fogo Isl., Ilha Brava), Islas Selvagens, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Socotra, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo), Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Benin, Togo, South Africa (North-West Prov.), Egypt (Desert Oases, Eastern Desert, Great Southwestern Desert, Nile Valley, SE-Egypt)
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- China (Guangdong, Guangxi, S-Yunnan), Afghanistan (Kunar / Nuristan, Laghman, Nangarhar, Paktia / Khost), India (throughout tropical India, Darjeeling), Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Kurram, N.W.Frontier Prov., Pakistani Punjab), Myanmar [Burma] (Magway, Mandalay, Sagaing, Shan), Sikkim, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Iran (S-Iran, W-Iran), Iraq (SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia), Israel (Rift Valley, S-Negev Desert), Jordania (S-Jordania, W-Jordania), Kuwait, Oman (Dhofar, Mascat & Oman), Saudi Arabia (C-Saudi Arabia, NE-Saudi Arabia, N-Saudi Arabia, Nafud Desert, Hejaz, Rub al Khali, Asir, Nejd Desert), Sinai peninsula (S-Sinai), Yemen (Aden Desert, coastal Hadhramaut, N-Inner Yemen, SW-Yemen, Tihama, W-Yemen)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Aiton, W.T., 1811. Hortus kew. ed. 2, 2:78.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Calotropis procera. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Sep 29. Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Calotropis procera in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Sep 29. Reference page.

International Plant Names Index. 2018. Calotropis procera. Published online. Accessed: Sep 29 2018.

The Plant List 2013. Calotropis procera in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Sep 29.

Tropicos.org 2018. Calotropis procera. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 29 Sep 2018.

USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Calotropis procera in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names

čeština: plchoplod otevřený, sodomské jablko
Deutsch: Oscher
English: Apple of Sodom, Swallow wort
suomi: Sodomanmadari
français: Pommier de Sodome, Arbre à soie du Sénégal
עברית: פְּתִילַת־הַמִּדְבָּר הַגְּדוֹלָה; תַּפּוּחַ סְדוֹם
magyar: Szodomai alma
svenska: Gråbladig kronbuske, sodomäpple

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