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Taxon: Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill.

Genus: Malus section: Malus
Family: Rosaceae subfamily: Spiraeoideae tribe: Pyreae subtribe: Pyrinae.
Nomen number: 23279
Place of publication: Gard. dict. ed. 8: Malus no. 1. 1768
Comment: non Malus sylvestris auct. (= M. domestica Borkh.)
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Feb-2007
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Geneva (GEN).
Accessions: 70 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘APPLE’ ) or .
  • Check AABGA/NAPCC Contact person for spp. and varieties for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: graft stock; ornamental   (fide Econ Pl Aust; F Eur)
  • Gene sources: primary genetic relative of apple   (fide J. Sauer, Historical geography of crop plants 110. 1993)
  • Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC)
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Distributional range:

Native:
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [w.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
Other:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Coart, E. et al. 2006. Chloroplast diversity in the genus Malus:new insights into the relationship between the European wild apple (Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill.) and the domesticated apple (Malus domestica Borkh.). Molec. Ecol. 15:2171–2182.
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [lists as M. sylvestris. Mill.].
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) ["silvestris"; lists as M. sylvestris. Mill.].
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [lists as M. sylvestris. Mill.].
  • Likhonos, F. D. 1974. A survey of the species in the genus Malus Mill. Trudy Prikl. Bot. 52(3):20.
  • 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)
  • Ponomarenko, V. V. 1977. On the specific composition of wild growing apple trees in the USSR and centers of their genetic diversity. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 62(6):823.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Check other databases for Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Malus sylvestris 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.

Images:

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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?23279 (22 November 2009)

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