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Taxon: Elaeagnus angustifolia L.

Genus: Elaeagnus
Family: Elaeagnaceae.
Nomen number: 14915
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:121. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 31-Dec-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 31-Dec-2007
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
CO*, CT*, NM*, WY°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System
Link to species profile at National Invasive Species Information Center

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • oleaster   (Source: F USSR ) – English
  • Russian-olive   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • trebizond-date   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  • sha zao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • chalef   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • olivier de Bohême   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • schmalblättrige Ölweide   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  • árvore-do-paraíso   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • árbol del paraíso   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • olivo de Bohemia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • panjino   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
    Mongolia: Mongolia
    China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]; Pakistan [n.e.]
  • EUROPE
    East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere in Europe, & in n. Africa, United States, & Canada

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
  • Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR) [cultivated].
  • Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • 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)
  • Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541. (Trees US)
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Elaeagnus angustifolia L.:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Elaeagnus angustifolia cultivars
  • 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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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14915 (09 February 2010)

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