Taxon: Laurus nobilis L.
Genus: Laurus
Family: Lauraceae.
Nomen number: 21664
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:369. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 09-Oct-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-Oct-2009
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA). Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
- bay (Source: BSBI
) – English
- bay laurel (Source: Pl Book
) – English
- bay-leaf laurel (Source: CRC Medherbs ed2) – English
- Grecian laurel (Source: AH 505
) – English
- laurel (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- sweet bay (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- yue gui (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- laurier (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Lorbeerbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- Lorbeerstrauch (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
- loureiro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- louro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- louro-comum (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- louro-de-apolônio (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- louro-europeu (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Native:
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco [n.]; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Lebanon; Syria [w.]; Turkey [w.]
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Albania [w.]; Bosnia and Herzegovina [w.]; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Slovenia Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]
Naturalized:
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Jalas, J. & J. Suominen.
1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
- Krüssmann, G.
1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Mabberley, D. J.
1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
- Magness, J. R. et al.
1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Reichel, S.
1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
- 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 Laurus nobilis L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Laurus nobilis 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Check other databases for images:
- PlantSystematics.org
-
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?21664 (09 February 2010)
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