Taxon: Alnus japonica (Thunb.) Steud.

Common names:

• Japanese alder   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 11:68.) – English
  
• ri ben qi mu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• han-no-ki   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• japansk al   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:71. 1997)
  
• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:71. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:71. 1997)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:71. 1997)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide PROTABASE)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:71. 1997)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
  China: China - Anhui, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Philippines

References:

• 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).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 11:68–71.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jiangsu Institute of Botany. 1982. Flora of Jiangsu.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Murai, S. 1964. Phytotaxonomical and geobotanical studies on genusAlnus in Japan. III. Taxonomy of whole world species and distribution of each section. Bull. Gov. Forest Exp. Sta., Meguro 171:44.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Alnus japonica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Alnus japonica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Alnus japonica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Alnus japonica var. arguta (Regel) Callier
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Alnus maritima var. japonica (Thunb.) Regel
  

Check other web resources for Alnus japonica (Thunb.) Steud.:

• 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
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Alnus japonica 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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