Taxon: Ephedra gerardiana Wall. ex Stapf

• the 6 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Ephedra gerardiana var. gerardiana (no accessions)
• Ephedra gerardiana var. sikkimensis (no accessions)

Common names:

• Indian joint-fir   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• Pakistani ephedra   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• shan ling ma huang   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• 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).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ephedra gerardiana.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ephedra gerardiana.

Check other web resources for Ephedra gerardiana Wall. ex Stapf:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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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