Taxon: Juniperus sabina L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Juniperus sabina forma fastigiata (no accessions)
• Juniperus sabina var. arenaria (no accessions)
• Juniperus sabina var. davurica (no accessions)
• Juniperus sabina var. sabina (no accessions)

Common names:

• sabina   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• sabina   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• sabine   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• sand-loving savin   (Source: Gen Juniperus ) – English   [Juniperus sabina var. arenaria]
  
• savin   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• savin   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• savin juniper   (Source: HerbSpices ) – English
  
• cha zi yuan bai   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• cha zi yuan bai   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• xing an yuan bai   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Juniperus sabina var. davurica]
  
• sabine   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• Sade-Wacholder   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• Sadebaum   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
  
• Sadebaum   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – German   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• Sebenbaum   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – German   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• Stinkwalcholder   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – German   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• kazakij   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• kazakij   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Transliterated Russian   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• mozzevel'nik   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• mozzevel'nik   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Transliterated Russian   [Juniperus sabina var. sabina]
  
• sävenbom   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (rust diseases fide Diseas Comp, Compendium of apple and pear diseases 13. 1990. APS)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide HerbSpices)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Juniperus sabina from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia [s.], Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Chita, Gorno-Altay
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
  China: China - Gansu, Heilongjiang, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - Volgograd; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• also cultivated

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. 2008. Junipers of the world: the genus Juniperus, ed. 2.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jones, A. L. & H. S. Aldwinckle. 1990. Compendium of apple and pear diseases. P. 13 in: American Phytopathological Society, The disease compendium series.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:99.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964. Flora europaea.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Juniperus sabina.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Juniperus sabina.

Synonyms:

• Juniperus chinensis var. arenaria E. H. Wilson [≡ Juniperus sabina var. arenaria]
  

Check other web resources for Juniperus sabina L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Juniperus sabina 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.

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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