Euphorbiaceae
Jatropha

Jatropha integerrima Jacq.

First published in Enum. Syst. Pl.: 32 (1763)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Cuba (incl. Island de la Juventud). It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine and has environmental uses.

Distribution

Native to:

Cuba

Introduced into:

Bangladesh, Belize, Caroline Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jawa, Leeward Is., Marianas, Marquesas, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Society Is., Southwest Caribbean, Sulawesi, Trinidad-Tobago, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Balakrishnan, N.P. & Chakrabarty, T. (2007). The family Euphorbiaceae in India. A synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography: 1-500. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.
  • Cirilo, N. & Proctor, G.R. (1994). Vascular plants of the Caribbean Swan islands of Honduras. Brenesia 41-42: 73-80.
  • Dehgan, B. (2012). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 110: 1-273.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016). Flora of North America North of Mexico 12: 1-603. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Florence, J. (1997). Flore de la Polynésie Française 1: 1-393. ORSTOM éditions, Paris.
  • Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
  • Smith, A.C. (1981). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 2: 1-810. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • van Welzen, P.C. & Chayamarit, K. (2007). Flora of Thailand 8(2): 305-592. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Balakrishnan, N.P. & Chakrabarty, T. (2007). The family Euphorbiaceae in India. A synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography: 1-500. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.
  • Cirilo, N. & Proctor, G.R. (1994). Vascular plants of the Caribbean Swan islands of Honduras. Brenesia 41-42: 73-80.
  • Dehgan, B. (2012). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 110: 1-273.
  • Florence, J. (1997). Flore de la Polynésie Française 1: 1-393. ORSTOM éditions, Paris.
  • Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Jacq., Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.: 256, t. 183, fig. 47 (1763).
  • Pax in A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich IV. 147(1): 50 (1910).

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Apr 21, 2008 Wright, C. [1954] Cuba K000252689 Type Yes
Apr 21, 2008 Hardy [s.n.] K000252686 Unknown Type Material Yes
Apr 21, 2008 H.B.C. [s.n.] K000252687 Type Yes
Apr 21, 2008 Eggers [2833] Dominican Republic K000254064 Type Yes
Apr 21, 2008 [Gr., W.] [s.n.] K000252684 Type Yes
Apr 21, 2008 s.coll. [s.n.] K000252685 Type Yes
Jan 1, 2003 Hong Kong K:SPC-64590.000 No
Jan 1, 1992 Curtiss, A.H. [458] Cuba K000252688 Type Yes
Zimmermann, R. [145] Thailand K003984531 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K004445083 Yes
Kerr, A.F.G. [3783] Thailand K003984530 Yes
Marcan, A. [1700] Thailand K003984528 Yes
DeWolf Jr., G.P. [2004] Venezuela K000716419 Yes
Leonard, E.C.; Leonard, G.M. [15317] Haiti K003984973 Yes
Zimmermann, R. [27] Thailand K003984532 Yes
Fosberg, F.R. [59841] Guam K003984639 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K004445082 Yes
Linden [[1200]] Cuba K003984970 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K004445084 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K004445079 Yes
Radcliffe-Smith [5532] Oman K000254565 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003984974 Yes
Florence, J. [6161] French Polynesia K003984621 Yes
Whistler, W.A. [9942] Samoa K003984634 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Thailand K003984533 Yes
Groff, G.W. [s.n.] Thailand K003984529 Yes
Combs, R. [99] Cuba K003984968 Yes
Ekman, E.L. [s.n.] Cuba K003984969 Yes
Hahn, M. [999] Martinique K003984971 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003984972 Yes
Hu, S., Y. [13689] Hong Kong Jatropha hastata K000254606 Yes
Major Madden [s.n.] Jatropha pandurifolia K003984964 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Jatropha pandurifolia K004445089 Yes
de Schach, B. [s.n.] Trinidad and Tobago Jatropha pandurifolia K003984965 Yes
Bally, P.R.O. [6369] Kenya Jatropha pandurifolia K000776896 Yes
Ekman, E.L. [s.n.] Cuba Jatropha pandurifolia K003984966 Yes
Ambriansyah; Yasir, I.; Lukman [AA3103] Indonesia Jatropha pandurifolia K003984584 Yes
Bourne [s.n.] India Jatropha pandurifolia K003984466 Yes
Matthew, K.M.; Gastmans, W.F. [RHT72860] India Jatropha pandurifolia K003984465 Yes
Wright, C. [1952] Cuba Jatropha pandurifolia K003984967 Yes
Jeffrey, C. [637] Seychelles Jatropha pandurifolia K000254890 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0