Taxon: Ephedra distachya L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Ephedra distachya subsp. distachya (no accessions)
• Ephedra distachya subsp. helvetica (no accessions)
• Ephedra distachya subsp. monostachya (no accessions)

Common names:

• sea-grape   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• sea-grape   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English   [Ephedra distachya subsp. distachya]
  
• shuang sui ma huang   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• alpefedra   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Ephedra distachya subsp. helvetica]
  
• russinefedra   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Germany; Hungary; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964. Flora europaea. 1:40. [with two subspecies].
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ephedra distachya.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ephedra distachya.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ephedra distachya.

Synonyms:

• Ephedra helvetica C. A. Mey. [≡ Ephedra distachya subsp. helvetica]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Ephedra monostachya L. [≡ Ephedra distachya subsp. monostachya]
  
• (=) Ephedra vulgaris Rich.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Ephedra distachya L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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