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Internal ID UUID643ff0769caab947537797
Scientific name Vernicia montana
Authority Lour.
First published in Fl. Cochinch. : 586 (1790)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Aleurites montanus E.H.Wilson Bull. Imp. Inst. Gr. Brit. 11: 460 (1913)
Aleurites vernicius (Corrêa) Hassk. Flora 25(2): 40 (1842)
Dryandra vernicia Corrêa Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 8: 69 (1806)
Elaeococca montana (Lour.) Oken Allg. Naturgesch. 3(3): 1599 (1841)
Aleurites cordatus Gagnep.
Elaeococca vernicia (Corrêa) A.Juss.

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Language Common/alternative name
English mu oil tree
Arabic ورنيشة جبلية
Vietnamese trẩu nhăn
Vietnamese trẩu
Chinese 木油桐
Chinese 千年桐
Chinese 廣東油桐
Chinese 皱果桐
Chinese 一种维管植物

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- Native
  • Asia-temperate
    • China
      • China South-central
      • China Southeast
      • Hainan
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Taiwan
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • East Himalaya
      • India
    • Indo-China
      • Cambodia
      • Myanmar
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Jawa

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000332486
USDA Plants VEMO3
Tropicos 12803532
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:358199-1
The Plant List kew-212846
Open Tree Of Life 262928
NCBI Taxonomy 316732
IUCN Red List 147641444
IPNI 358199-1
iNaturalist 546537
GBIF 3074918
Freebase /m/05zkv0c
EOL 1149440
USDA GRIN 41193
Wikipedia Vernicia_montana

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_052324465.1 ASM5232446v1 Scaffold Chinese Academy of Forestry 2025-08-28 40 1.20 Gb

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Pest categorisation of Pyrrhoderma noxium Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Golic D, Gobbi A, Maiorano A, Pautasso M, Reignault PL EFSA J 19-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10949325
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8667
PMID:38505477
Functional characterization of NBS-LRR genes reveals an NBS-LRR gene that mediates resistance against Fusarium wilt Cao Y, Mo W, Li Y, Xiong Y, Wang H, Zhang Y, Lin M, Zhang L, Li X BMC Biol 27-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10898138
doi:10.1186/s12915-024-01836-x
PMID:38408951
Pest categorisation of Pestalotiopsis disseminata Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Migheli Q, Vloutoglou I, Gobbi A, Maiorano A, Pautasso M, Reignault PL EFSA J 19-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10728885
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8494
PMID:38116101
Editorial: Woody oil crops: key trait formation and regulation Cao H, Gong W, Rong J, Yuan D Front Plant Sci 10-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10668023
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1328990
PMID:38023882
Isolation of endophytic fungi from Cotoneaster multiflorus and screening of drought-tolerant fungi and evaluation of their growth-promoting effects Lü ZW, Liu HY, Wang CL, Chen X, Huang YX, Zhang MM, Huang QL, Zhang GF Front Microbiol 02-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10653309
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1267404
PMID:38029186
Tung tree stearoyl‐acyl carrier protein Δ9 desaturase improves oil content and cold resistance of Arabidopsis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chen J, Gao J, Zhang L, Zhang L Front Plant Sci 07-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10028071
doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1144853
PMID:36959932
Genome-wide characterization leading to simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers development in Shorea robusta Mishra G, Meena RK, Kant R, Pandey S, Ginwal HS, Bhandari MS Funct Integr Genomics 28-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9883139
doi:10.1007/s10142-023-00975-8
PMID:36707443
Therapeutic target mapping from the genome of Kingella negevensis and biophysical inhibition assessment through PNP synthase binding with traditional medicinal compounds Basharat Z, Murtaza Z, Siddiqa A, Alnasser SM, Meshal A Mol Divers 16-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9842218
doi:10.1007/s11030-023-10604-y
PMID:36645537
Genome-wide association study for resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. garcae in Coffea arabica Ariyoshi C, Sant’ana GC, Felicio MS, Sera GH, Nogueira LM, Rodrigues LM, Ferreira RV, da Silva BS, de Resende ML, Destéfano SA, Domingues DS, Pereira LF Front Plant Sci 18-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9624508
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.989847
PMID:36330243
Receptor-like Kinases (LRR-RLKs) in Response of Plants to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses Soltabayeva A, Dauletova N, Serik S, Sandybek M, Omondi JO, Kurmanbayeva A, Srivastava S Plants (Basel) 10-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9572924
doi:10.3390/plants11192660
PMID:36235526
Pest categorisation of Colletotrichum aenigma , C. alienum , C. perseae , C. siamense and C. theobromicola Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Migheli Q, Vloutoglou I, Czwienczek E, Maiorano A, Streissl F, Reignault PL EFSA J 25-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9405523
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7529
PMID:36034322
Fatty acids composition and in vivo biochemical effects of Aleurites moluccana seed (Candlenut) in obese wistar rats de Britto Rosa MC, Ribeiro PR, de Oliveira Silva V, Selvati-Rezende DA, da Silva TP, Souza FR, Cardoso MD, Seixas JN, Andrade EF, Pardi V, Murata RM, Pereira LJ Diabetol Metab Syndr 08-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9178887
doi:10.1186/s13098-022-00847-4
PMID:35676689
Exposed Rock Reduces Tree Size, but Not Diversity Li J, Zhang L, Li Y Front Plant Sci 07-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9210165
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.851781
PMID:35747882
Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 4 Chen Q, Bakhshi M, Balci Y, Broders KD, Cheewangkoon R, Chen SF, Fan XL, Gramaje D, Halleen F, Jung MH, Jiang N, Jung T, Májek T, Marincowitz S, Milenković I, Mostert L, Nakashima C, Nurul Faziha I, Pan M, Raza M, Scanu B, Spies CF, Suhaizan L, Suzuki H, Tian CM, Tomšovský M, Úrbez-Torres JR, Wang W, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Yang Q, Yang X, Zare R, Zhao P, Groenewald JZ, Cai L, Crous PW Stud Mycol 02-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9365048
doi:10.3114/sim.2022.101.06
PMID:36059898
The First Report on Transgenic Hairy Root Induction from the Stem of Tung Tree (Vernicia fordii) Jia H, Chen J, Zhang L, Zhang L Plants (Basel) 16-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9148109
doi:10.3390/plants11101315
PMID:35631740

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