Taxon: Nerium oleander L.

 
Genus: Nerium
Family: Apocynaceae
  Subfamily: Apocynoideae
      Tribe: Wrightieae
Nomen number: 25229
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:209. 1753
Name Verified on: 24-Jan-2012 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 24-Jan-2012
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA)
Accessions: 11 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Wealth India RM, as N. oleander & N. indica; Healing Pl India, as N. indica)
  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Kingsbury, as N. oleander & N. indicum; Kellerman et al.; Lampe & McCann; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  • Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Rep NCEPPC; Weeds SAfr 2001)

Distributional Range:

    Other:

    . exact native range obscure

    Native:

  • Africa

    • Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
    • West Tropical Africa: Niger

  • Asia-Temperate

    • Arabian Peninsula: Oman; United Arab Emirates
    • China: China - Yunnan
    • Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey

  • Asia-Tropical

    • Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir, - Punjab; Nepal; Pakistan

  • Europe

    • Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Malta
    • Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

    • Naturalized:

    . widely natzd.

    Cultivated:

    . also cult.

References:

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Synonyms:

Check other web resources for Nerium oleander L. :

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image