Plant Details

Accepted name:: Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd. [Euphorbiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
akharota	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akhod	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akhota	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akhrot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akola	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akroda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akrot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akrottu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akrotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akrut	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akshota	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akshotam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
amanakku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arkod	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
asphotaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
balucanat	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bancoulier	Other	Useful Pl. of Kongo C. Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
calumbán	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
camirio	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
candle nut oil tree	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
candleberry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
candlenut	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
candlenut tree	Other	Useful Pl. of Kongo C. Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
candlenut-tree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chahar-maghze-hindi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
girdagane-hindi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gudashaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
indian walnut	Other	Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) Useful Pl. of Kongo C. Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
indian-walnut	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
jaiphala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jangli-akhrot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jangliakrot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
japhala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jouzebarri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandarala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karankolam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karparala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katakrote	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattu kottai chedi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaureshta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khasife-hindi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kukui	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kukui nut	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lichtnußbaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
lumbang oil	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lumbangtree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
lumbán	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
madanabhaphala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mkaa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
naadu aakrotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naadu akrotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naati akrotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naattakrotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
natakrodu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
natakrotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nattakkarottu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nattkkarotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nattu akrottu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
natu akrotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
natuakrodu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nogueira	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
nogueira-brasileira	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
nogueira-da-india	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
nogueira-da-índia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
nogueira-de-bancul	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
nogueira-de-iguape	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
noix des indes	Other	Useful Pl. of Kongo C. Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
noyer de bancoul	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
noyer des moluques	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
noz-da-índia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
otaheite walnut	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parvatiya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
phalasneha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pritakchhada	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ramakrot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ranakot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rata kekuna	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
rekhaphala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
svadumajja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thel kekuna	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
uduga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vadam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
varnishtree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
vrittaphala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
woodooga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Nut (fruit)		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
root		Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
root		Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 27 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aleurites javanicus Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 60: 27 (1913).
Aleurites trilobus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. Char. Gen. Pl.: 112 (1776).
Jatropha moluccana L. Sp. Pl.: 1006 (1753).
Mallotus moluccanus (L.) Müll.Arg. Linnaea 34: 185 (1865).
Aleurites ambinux Pers. Syn. Pl. 2: 579 (1807).
Aleurites angustifolius Vieill. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 16: 60 (1862).
Aleurites commutatus Geiseler Croton. Monogr.: 82 (1807).
Aleurites cordifolius (Gaertn.) Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 49 (1840).
Aleurites integrifolius Vieill. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 16: 59 (1862).
Aleurites lanceolatus Blanco Fl. Filip.: 757 (1837).
Aleurites lobatus Blanco Fl. Filip.: 756 (1837).
Aleurites moluccanus var. aulanii O.Deg. & I.Deg. Phytologia 21: 316 (1971).
Aleurites moluccanus var. floccosus Airy Shaw Kew Bull. 20: 26, 393 (1966).
Aleurites moluccanus var. katoi O.Deg., I.Deg. & B.S.Stone Phytologia 21: 315 (1971).
Aleurites moluccanus var. remyi (Sherff) B.C.Stone Pacific Sci. 21: 553 (1967).
Aleurites moluccanus var. serotinus O.Deg. & Sherff Amer. J. Bot. 38: 57 (1951).
Aleurites pentaphyllus Benth. in N.Wallich, Numer. List: n.° 7959 (1847), nom. nud.
Aleurites remyi Sherff Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 17: 558 (1939).
Camerium moluccanum (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 595 (1891).
Camirium cordifolium Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 194 (1791).
Camirium oleosum Reinw. ex Blume Catalogus: 104 (1823).
Dryandra oleifera Lam. Encycl. 2: 329 (1786).
Mallotus moluccanus var. genuinus Müll.Arg. Linnaea 34: 185 (1865), not validly publ.
Manihot moluccana (L.) Crantz Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 167 (1766).
Ricinus dicoccus Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832. 3: 690 (1832).
Rottlera moluccana (L.) Scheff. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 4: 122 (1869).
Telopea perspicua Sol. ex Seem. Fl. Vit.: 223 (1867).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aleurites javanica Gand.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Aleurites moluccana	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Useful Pl. of Kongo C. Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Fijian Medicinal Plants (Cambie & Ash, 1994) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. and Magical Pl. of S. Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Medicinal plants in South Pacific (WHO, 1998) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Aleurites moluccana Willd.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Aleurites moluccana Willdenow	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Aleurites trilobo Farst.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Jatropha moluccana L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Mallotus moluccana	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Mallotus moluccana Muell. Arg.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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