Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Morinda citrifolia L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Morinda citrifolia
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
L.
Common names
Noni, French mulberry, Indian Mulberry, Indian-mulberry, canary-wood, cheesefruit, great morinda, noni-tree, rotten cheesefruit
Names in other languages (44)Apatot, Fei Froid, Fruta del diablo, Guanábana cimarrona, Indische moerbei, Konokono voalavo, Lada, Malaye, Bois tortue, Mûrier de Java, Vomi le chien, Mengkudu, Mengkudu besar, Mingkudu, Morindier, Morindier, noni, fromager, mûrier indien, Noni asiático, Nonibaum, Nono, Nono, Pomme-chien, Morindier, Nonu, Pain Bush, Pain Killer, Pokok, Pomme-chien, Spirit Fruit (Trinidad & Tobago); Indian mulberry, Tibah, awl tree, bois douleur, hora, nono, mora de la India, morinda, morinda citrolistá, morinda citrusolistá, ngel, pau-azeitona, Моринда цитрусолистная, ರಂಗ್ದ ಕೆತ್ತೆ, අහු, ยอบ้าน, ញភ្នំ, ᨅᨍ (bajá), ノニ, ヤエヤマアオキ, 檄樹, 海巴戟天, 諾麗果
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Gentianales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Rubiaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Morinda
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
citrifolia
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Morinda citrifolia
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 07:59.
Photo of Morinda citrifolia L.
Photo: Pierre Cartier · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Morinda citrifolia L.
Photo: Matt B · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Morinda citrifolia L.
Photo: Ricardo Betancourt Sánchez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Morinda citrifolia L.
Photo: Matthew Morgan · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Morinda citrifolia L.
Photo: chiuluan · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Morinda citrifolia L.
Photo: Gabriel Cardoso Fialho · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 07:59.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 9 is pollinated by × 8 more types with data for this species

Pollination

is pollinated by 3 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Ornate Day Gecko Phelsuma ornata Gekkonidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Lang's Short-tailed Blue Leptotes pirithous Lycaenidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Showing 3 of 3, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.