Croton tiglium L.

  • Filed As

    Euphorbiaceae
    Croton tiglium L.

  • Collector(s)

    E. D. Merrill 308, Dec 1913

  • Location

    Philippines. Camarines Province, Luzon.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 3994123

    Occurrence ID: e16f2dca-7c02-48d2-8643-b028c39607d2

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Malpighiales

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • All Determinations

    Croton tiglium L.

£08* Croton tigllma Bía&ao
Orotoís gl an&is. 1 o sUd Blanco
Or otos ismrl<*at€UB Blaaeo
CROTON Linnaeus
glandulosum Blanco FL Filip. (1837) 754 (sp. nov.J= Croton muri-
catum Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 518 (nom. nov.); ed. 3 3 (18795
154, i. ^ = CROTON T.IGLIUM Linn.
The croton oil plant is commonly cultivated about dwellings
throughout the Philippines, its chief use being to stupefy fish
Certainly a purposely introduced plant in the Philippines .
Illustrative .specimen from Camarines Province, Luzon De-
cember, ,1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 308) .
confirmavit!
H.-J. Esser Mar. 2001
Harvard University Herbaria
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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