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Taxon: Ilex cornuta Lindl. & Paxton

Genus: Ilex
Family: Aquifoliaceae.
Nomen number: 19689
Place of publication: Paxton's Fl. Gard. 1:43. 1850
Name verified on: 06-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-May-2011
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 6 in National Plant Germplasm System.


Common names:

  • Chinese holly   (Source: Hollies ) – English
  • horned holly   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • houx   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  • chinesische Stechpalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Hubei [e.], Shandong
    Eastern Asia: Korea

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
  • Galle, F. C. 1997. Hollies. The genus Ilex.
  • Hu, S. Y. 1949. The genus Ilex in China. J. Arnold Arbor. 30:353.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
  • Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
  • Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
  • Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley.
  • Zhong Guo & Hua Jing. 1993. China floral encyclopaedia.
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Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Ilex cornuta Lindl. & Paxton:

  • 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 (on-line resource). for Ilex cornuta 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.

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?19689 (19 May 2013)

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