page_title: Aleurites
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Aleurites / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Aleurites moluccana (seedling). Location: Maui, Keanae Arboretum
context_page_description: Aleurites is a small genus of arborescent flowering plants in the Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Queensland. It is also reportedly naturalized on various islands as well as scattered locations in Africa, South America, and Florida.
  These monoecious, evergreen trees are perennials or semiperennials. These are large trees, 15–40 m tall, with spreading, drooping, and rising branches.
  The leaves are alternate, lobate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate with minute stipules. They are pubescent on both sides when young, but in a later stage they become glabrous.
  The inflorescence consists of terminal plumes of small, creamy white, bell-shaped, fragrant flowers, branching from the base. The flowers are usually bisexual, with a solitary pistillate flower at the end of each major axis. The lateral cymes are staminate. There are five or six imbricate petals. The staminate flowers are mostly longer and thinner than the pistillate flowers, with 17-32 glabrous stamens in four whorls. The pistillate flowers have a superior ovary.
context_section_description: Accepted species
  The most widespread species is the candlenut (Aleurites moluccanus), occurring from tropical Asia and the Pacific, from India to China and Polynesia, Australia and New Zealand. Some botanists only recognize two species, A. moluccanus and A. rockinghamensis.
  Aleurites moluccanus (L.) Willd. – Indian walnut, candlenut tree, country walnut, aburagiri, ama - most of genus range
  Aleurites rockinghamensis (Baill.) P.I.Forst. - Papua New Guinea, Queensland
  formerly included
  moved to other genera: Croton, Mallotus, Omphalea, Reutealis, Vernicia 
  A. cordatus - Vernicia cordata
  A. erraticus - Omphalea papuana
  A. fordii - Vernicia fordii
  A. japonicus - Vernicia cordata
  A. laccifer - Croton laccifer
  A. montanus - Vernicia montana
  A. peltatus - Mallotus peltatus
  A. saponarius - Reutealis trisperma
  A. trispermus - Reutealis trisperma
  A. vernicifluus  -  Vernicia cordata
  A. vernicius  - Vernicia montana
caption: Candlenut seedling
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