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Taxon: Datisca cannabina L.

Genus: Datisca
Family: Datiscaceae.
Nomen number: 13298
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1037. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 12-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-May-1995
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • chanvre de Créte   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Scheinhanf   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • akalbir   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  • acalbir   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – unknown

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  • Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (source of a yellow dye formerly used for silk fide Dict Econ Pl)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran [n.]; Iraq; Lebanon; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
    Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Greece - Crete

References:

  • Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. (F Himachal)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl) 174.
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Check other databases for Datisca cannabina L.:

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?13298 (09 February 2010)

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