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Taxon: Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl

Genus: Forsythia
Family: Oleaceae tribe: Forsythieae.
Nomen number: 231
Place of publication: Enum. pl. 1:39. 1804
Name verified on: 18-Aug-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Aug-2008
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • Check AABGA/NAPCC Contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Anhui [w.], Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan

References:

  • American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce. (Herbs Commerce)
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • 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)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
  • 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)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F) [with two vars.].
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
  • Zhong Guo & Hua Jing. 1993. China floral encyclopaedia. (China FlEncy)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Check other databases for Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • 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:

  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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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?231 (09 February 2010)

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