Taxon: Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle
Genus: Ailanthus
Family: Simaroubaceae.
Nomen number: 2072
Place of publication: J. Washington Acad. Sci. 6:495. 1916
Name verified on: 05-May-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 03-Feb-2010
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA). Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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:
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CT*, MA*, NH*, VT*.
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- Link to species profile at

See also subordinate taxa:
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Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan Eastern Asia: Taiwan
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
- Chen Fenghwai & Wu Telin.
1991–. Flora of Guangdong. (F Guangdong)
- 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)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- George, A. S., ed.
1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist.
1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
- Henderson, L.
2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
- Jiangsu Institute of Botany.
1982. Flora of Jiangsu. (F Jiangsu)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Meyer, F. G. et al.
1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
- Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
- National Academy of Sciences.
1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. (Firewood Cr)
- Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
- Shun-Ching Lee.
1935. Forest botany of China.
694.
- St. John, H.
1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
- Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
- USDA National Agricultural Library.
National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
- Valkenburg, J. L. C. H. van & N. Bunyapraphatsara, eds.
2001. Medicinal and poisonous plants 2.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
12(2):45–48.
- 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 Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle:
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- ABIF: Australian Biodiversity
Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
- 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
- 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
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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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Cite as: 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?2072 (09 February 2010)
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