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Taxon: Euryale ferox Salisb.

Genus: Euryale
Family: Nymphaeaceae. Also placed in: Euryalaceae
Nomen number: 16447
Place of publication: Ann. Bot. (König & Sims) 2:74. 1806
Name verified on: 24-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Feb-2009
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • euryale   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • foxnut   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • gorgon   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  • qian shi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • makhana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  • onibasu   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
    China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
    Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu; Korea, South; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
    Indo-China: Myanmar [n.]

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  • 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)
  • Kress, W. J. et al., eds. Revised checklist of the plants of Myanmar (Burma) (on-line resource). (L Myanmar Online)
  • Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea. (F Korea)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Check other databases for Euryale ferox Salisb.:

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

Images:

More:
  • 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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