Taxon: Juniperus excelsa M. Bieb.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Juniperus excelsa subsp. excelsa (no accessions)

Common names:

• Crimean juniper   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• Crimean juniper   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English   [Juniperus excelsa subsp. excelsa]
  
• Grecian juniper   (Source: KrussmannC ) – English
  
• Greek juniper   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• Greek juniper   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English   [Juniperus excelsa subsp. excelsa]
  
• ardiç   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Turkish
  
• ardiç   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Turkish   [Juniperus excelsa subsp. excelsa]
  
• dedali-gwia   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – unknown
  
• dedali-gwia   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – unknown   [Juniperus excelsa subsp. excelsa]
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: wood   (firewood fide Monog Cupressaceae)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Krasnodar
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Macedonia

References:

• Adams, R. P. 1999. Systematics of the multi-seeded eastern hemisphere Juniperus based on leaf essential oils and RAPD DNA fingerprinting. Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 27:709–725.
• Adams, R. P. 2001. Geographic variation in leaf essential oils and RAPDs of Juniperus polycarpos K. Koch in central Asia. Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 29:609–619.
• Adams, R. P. 2008. Junipers of the world: the genus Juniperus, ed. 2.
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 287–288.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krüssmann, G. 1985. Manual of cultivated conifers (English translation of Die Nadelgeholze, ed. 2. 1983).
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Juniperus excelsa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Juniperus excelsa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Juniperus excelsa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Juniperus isophyllos K. Koch
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Juniperus excelsa M. Bieb.:

• 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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