Quisqualis indica L.

QUISQUALIS Linnaeus
QUISQUALIS INDICA Linn.; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 361=Quisqualis
Spinosa Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 254 (sp. nov.); 3, 2 (1878) 109,
t. 133.
The plant that Blanco correctly referred to *Quisqualis indica*
in the first edition of his Flora de Filipinas he described as a
new species in the second edition. Fernandez-Villar erred in
reducing it to *Quisqualis malabarica* Bedd., a species that does
not extend to the Philippines. It is common and widely dis-
tributed in the Archipelago. It is commonly known as niog-
niogan and as tangúlon.
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 (Mer-
rill: Species Blacoanae No. 582).
Couder
MERRILL:
SPECIES BLANCOANAE NO. 582
Revised for Flora Malesiana
*Quisqualis indica* h.
aw Exell
det. D.F. van Slooten 1953
582. *Quisqualis indica* Linn.;
Blanco
*Quisqualis spinosa* Blanco
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*Quisqualis indica*
*Quisqualis spinosa*
*Quisqualis malabarica*

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