Plumeria rubra L. GRIN-Global

Summary

Genus:

Plumeria

Family:

Apocynaceae

Subfamily:

Rauvolfioideae

Tribe:

Plumerieae

Nomen number:

28884

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:209. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

01/24/2012 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Plumeria rubra L. f. acutifolia (Poir.) Woodson (0 active accession[s])
Plumeria rubra L. f. rubra (0 active accession[s])
Plumeria rubra L. f. tricolor (Ruiz & Pav.) Woodson (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)

Plumeria acuminata W. T. Aiton

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Reference(s)

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) www.skud.info
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Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Note: cultivated
Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
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Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
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1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.

Common names

English
frangipani –
pagoda-tree –
red paucipan –
red-jasmine –
templetree –
French
frangipanier –
German
rote Frangipani –
Portuguese
flor-de-Santo-Antônio –
Portuguese (Brazil)
jasmim-de-caiena –
jasmim-do-Pará –
jasmin-do-pará –
jasmin-manga –
Spanish
alhelí –
alhelí cimarrón –
suche –
Swedish
frangipani –
Transcribed Chinese
hong ji dan hua –

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Baja California Sur
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Chihuahua
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Durango
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	San Luis Potosí
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Sinaloa
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Sonora
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Tamaulipas
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Zacatecas
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Aguascalientes
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Campeche
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Chiapas
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Colima
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guanajuato
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guerrero
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Hidalgo
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Jalisco
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	México
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Michoacán de Ocampo
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Morelos
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Nayarit
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Oaxaca
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Puebla
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Querétaro
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Quintana Roo
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Tabasco
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Yucatán
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Belize
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Costa Rica
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	El Salvador
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Honduras
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Nicaragua
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Panama
2	Cultivated					widely cult. in tropics
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Bahamas
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Cuba
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Dominica
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Dominican Republic
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Grenada
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Guadeloupe
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Haiti
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Martinique
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	Netherlands Antilles
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	St. Kitts and Nevis
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	St. Lucia
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Caribbean	St. Vincent and Grenadines
4	Naturalized	Southern America	Northern South America	Venezuela

Native
Northern America

NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Baja California Sur]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador

Cultivated (widely cult. in tropics)
Naturalized
Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Netherlands Antilles, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Haiti, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Martinique, St. Vincent and Grenadines
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Environmental	ornamental		Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Environmental	ornamental		Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: cultivated
Medicines	folklore	fide F ChinaEng; Herbs Commerce ed2; Wealth India RM, as Plumeria rubra & Plumeria acuminata; Healing Pl India, as Plumeria acuminata	McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Taxon: Plumeria rubra L.