Vitex parviflora: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Vitex
Species
Vitex parviflora
Scientific Name
Vitex parviflora

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Vitex parviflora

Vitex parviflora is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae, also known as smallflower chastetree or the molave tree. The name "molave" is from Spanish, derived from mulawin, the Tagalog word for the tree. It is also known as tugas in Visayan languages. It is known as sagat in ilokano. It yields one of two woods from the same genus called molave wood, the other being Vitex cofassus.

It is a native species in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It can also be found in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Oceania, and Asia. It was reported to be an invasive species in Guam and Hawaii after it became naturalized in O'ahu and escaped from cultivation in Guam. In Cuba, it is also considered as a possibly invasive species due to naturalization.

It is valued in the Philippines for its dense durable wood and was once used extensively in furniture, boats, utensils, and as construction material. The wood is also known to resist decay and termites. It became a protected species in the Philippines and it is illegal to cut its tree under certain conditions. Before 2019, it was listed as critically endangered, threatened and vulnerable in the assessments recorded in the IUCN Red List. As of 2017, the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources classified it as endangered due to overharvesting and habitat loss. Although in 2019, the species was reassessed and declared as least concern by IUCN.

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Vitex parviflora in languages:

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smallflower chastetree

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©glokplopit, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Greg III Espera, some rights reserved (CC-BY)
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©Greg III Espera, some rights reserved (CC-BY)
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©Greg III Espera, some rights reserved (CC-BY)
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©joshsegismundo, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©joshsegismundo, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Ricardo J. Colón-Rivera, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Ricardo J. Colón-Rivera, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Ricardo J. Colón-Rivera, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Noah Frade, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC-ND)
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©Noah Frade, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC-ND)
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©Noah Frade, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC-ND)
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©Liselle Santos, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC-SA)
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©Alan R. Franck, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Alan R. Franck, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Eric Buado, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Eric Buado, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Eric Buado, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©leonmateo, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©leonmateo, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©leonmateo, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©leonmateo, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©leonmateo, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Steve Maldonado Silvestrini, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Steve Maldonado Silvestrini, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
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©Steve Maldonado Silvestrini, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)

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