Santalum album

TaxID: 35974

Basic Information

Santalum album

East Indian sandalwood, White Sandalwood, white sandalwood

Santalum album is a small tropical tree, and the traditional source of sandalwood oil. It is native to Indonesia (Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands), the Philippines, and Western Australia. It is commonly known as the white sandalwood or Indian sandalwood. It was one of the plants exploited by Austronesian arboriculture and it was introduced by Austronesian sailors to Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia, during the ancient spice trade, becoming naturalized in South India by at least 1300 BCE. It was greatly valued for its fragrance, and is considered sacred in some religions like Hinduism. The high value of the species has caused over-exploitation, to the point where the wild population is vulnerable to extinction. Indian sandalwood still commands high prices for its essential oil owing to its high alpha-santalol content, but the lack of sizable trees has essentially eliminated its former use for fine woodworking. The plant is long-lived, but harvest is only viable after many years.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Santalales

Santalaceae

Santalum

album

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Photos (5 photos)

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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (18 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
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Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
China Present —
Colombia Present —
Comoros Present —
Ghana Present —
Indonesia Present —
India Present —
Sri Lanka Present —
Myanmar Present —
Mauritius Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_002911635.1 Contig 196 4363 4363 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
DRR738021,DRR738022,DRR738023 root Early stage - 31906730 missing: data agreement established pre-2023
DRR738025,DRR738024,DRR738026 root Mid stage - 24093791 missing: data agreement established pre-2023
DRR738028,DRR738029,DRR738027 root Late stage - 26640379 missing: data agreement established pre-2023

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature