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Genus: Mespilus
Family: Rosaceae subfamily: Spiraeoideae tribe: Pyreae subtribe: Pyrinae.
Nomen number: 24182
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:478. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 06-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR).
Accessions:
61 in National Plant Germplasm System.
- medlar (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- néflier (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- deutsche Mispel (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- Mispel (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
- Mispelbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- nespereira (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- níspero común (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- níspero europeo (Source: F EntreR
) – Spanish
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Native:
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Iraq [n.]; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
Middle Asia: Turkmenistan [s.]
- EUROPE
East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily (but doubtfully indigenous)]
Naturalized:
Cultivated:
- Burkart, A. E., ed.
1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
- Clapham, A. R. et al.
1962. Flora of the British Isles ed. 2. (F BritClap)
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- 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)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- 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)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Reichel, S.
1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Mespilus germanica L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- 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:
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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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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?24182 (09 February 2010)
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