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Taxon: Muscari neglectum Guss. ex Ten.

Genus: Muscari
Family: Asparagaceae subfamily: Scilloideae tribe: Hyacintheae subtribe: Hyacinthinae. Also placed in: Hyacinthaceae Liliaceae
Nomen number: 24762
Place of publication: Syll. pl. fl. neapol. App. 5:13. 1842
Name verified on: 25-Sep-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-Apr-1996
Species priority site is: Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • grape-hyacinth   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • musk-hyacinth   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  • nutmeg-hyacinth   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  • starch-hyacinth   (Source: Ency GardPl ) – English

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
    Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
  • EUROPE
    Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Brickell, C., ed. 1997. The American Horticultural Society. Encyclopaedia of garden plants. (Ency GardPl)
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk) [lists as M. neglectum Guss.].
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran) [lists as M. neglectum Guss.].
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq) [lists as M. neglectum Guss.].
  • 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) [lists as M. neglectum Guss.].
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Muscari neglectum Guss. ex Ten.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • 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
More:
  • 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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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?24762 (09 February 2010)

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