Elaeocarpus
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Elaeocarpus is a genus of tropical and subtropical evergreen trees and shrubs. The approximately 350 species are distributed from Madagascar in the west through India, Southeast Asia, Malesia, southern China, and Japan, through Australia to New Zealand, Fiji, and Hawaii in the east. The islands of Borneo and New Guinea have the greatest concentration of species.
Elaeocarpus ganitrus, the Rudraksha Tree, produces seeds known as Rudraksha. In Sanskrit rudraksha literally means "the eye of Rudra". The seeds have been traditionally considered sacred in Hinduism.
Species
(partial list)- Elaeocarpus aberrans
- Elaeocarpus acrantherus
- Elaeocarpus acuminatus: India. Endangered.
- Elaeocarpus acutifidus
- Elaeocarpus aemulus
- Elaeocarpus affinis
- Elaeocarpus alaternoides
- Elaeocarpus alatus
- Elaeocarpus alnifolius
- Elaeocarpus amboinensis
- Elaeocarpus amoenus: Sri Lanka
- Elaeocarpus amplifolius
- Elaeocarpus angustifolius: (syn. E. grandis) Blue fig, blue marble tree, blue quandong. Queensland, Australia.
- Elaeocarpus apiculatus
- Elaeocarpus bifidus
- Elaeocarpus biflorus
- Elaeocarpus blascoi: India. Endangered.
- Elaeocarpus castanaefolius
- Elaeocarpus colnettianus
- Elaeocarpus coorangooloo: Queensland (Australia)
- Elaeocarpus coriaceus: Sri Lanka
- Elaeocarpus crassus: New Guinea
- Elaeocarpus debruynii: New Guinea
- Elaeocarpus eumundii
- Elaeocarpus floribundus
- Elaeocarpus ganitrus (rudraksha tree)
- Elaeocarpus gaussenii: Southern India. Endangered.
- Elaeocarpus graeffii
- Elaeocarpus grandiflorus
- Elaeocarpus grandis
- Elaeocarpus hartleyi: New Guinea
- Elaeocarpus hedyosmus: Sri Lanka
- Elaeocarpus hookerianus: Pokaka. New Zealand.
- Elaeocarpus japonicus
- Elaeocarpus johnsonii
- Elaeocarpus kaalensis
- Elaeocarpus kirtonii
- Elaeocarpus mastersii
- Elaeocarpus miegei: New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Aru Islands and Melville Island.
- Elaeocarpus montanus: Sri Lanka
- Elaeocarpus moratii
- Elaeocarpus munronii. India. Endangered.
- Elaeocarpus neobritannicus: New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
- Elaeocarpus oblongus
- Elaeocarpus obovatus
- Elaeocarpus obtusus
- Elaeocarpus petiolatus
- Elaeocarpus photiniaefolius. Ogasawara Islands.
- Elaeocarpus pruifolius. India. Endangered.
- Elaeocarpus recurvatus. India. Endangered.
- Elaeocarpus reticulatus: (syn. E. cyaneus) blueberry ash. Australia.
- Elaeocarpus serratus: Southern India, Sri Lanka.
- Elaeocarpus sphaericus
- Elaeocarpus stipularis
- Elaeocarpus subvillosus: Sri Lanka.
- Elaeocarpus taprobanicus: Sri Lanka.
- Elaeocarpus timikensis: New Guinea.
- Elaeocarpus tuberculatus
- Elaeocarpus variabilis: Southern India.
- Elaeocarpus valetonii
- Elaeocarpus venosus
- Elaeocarpus venustus. India. Endangered.
- Elaeocarpus verruculosus
- Elaeocarpus verticellatus
- Elaeocarpus viscosus
- Elaeocarpus whartonensis
- Elaeocarpus xanthodactylus
- Elaeocarpus zambalensis
References
- Coode, M J E (2001). "Elaeocarpus in New Guinea - new taxa in the Debruynii subgroup of the Monocera group. Contributions to the Flora of Mt Jaya, V". Kew Bulletin, Kew, United Kingdom.
- Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Botanical Survey of India.
- Zmarzty, Sue (2001). "Revision of Elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpaceae) section Elaeocarpus in southern India and Sri Lanka" Kew Bulletin, Kew, United Kingdom.
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