      
Taxon: Olea europaea L.
Genus: Olea subgenus: Olea section: Olea
Family: Oleaceae tribe: Oleeae.
Nomen number: 25555
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:8. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 29-Jan-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Jan-2004
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis (DAV).
Accessions:
151 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- brown olive (Source: Ency WTimber
) – English [Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata]
- olive (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – English
- olive (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- oliveleaf (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2
) – English
- small-fruit olive (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- wild olive (Source: Ency WTimber
) – English [Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata]
- mu xi lian (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- olivier (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- olivier (Source: PROTABASE
) – French
- Ölbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- Olive (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- Olivenbaum (Source: Zander ed14
) – German [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- olivo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Italian [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- oliveira (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- oliveira (Source: PROTABASE
) – Portuguese
- azeitona (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- aceituno (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- olivo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Olea europaea subsp. europaea]
- mzaituni (Source: PROTABASE
) – Swahili
- mzeituni (Source: PROTABASE
) – Swahili
- olivträd (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
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Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa
Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Jordan; Turkey
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia
New Zealand: New Zealand
- NORTHERN AMERICA
United States [w.]
- PACIFIC
North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
Cultivated:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- 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).
- Besnard, G. et al.
2002. Olea europaea (Oleaceae) phylogeography based on chloroplast DNA polymorphism.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
104:1353–1361.
- Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
- Boulos, L.
1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
[with two varieties].
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Green, P. S.
2002. A revision of Olea L.
Kew Bull.
57:93–99.
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hackett, C. & J. Carolane.
1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
- Hansen, A. & P. Sunding.
1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
- Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds.
2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
- Kunkel, G.
1984. Plants for human consumption.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Médail, F. et al.
2001. Systematics, ecology and phylogeographic significance of Olea europaea L. ssp. maroccana (Greuter & Burdet) P. Vargas et al., a relictual olive tree in south-west Morocco.
Bot. J. Linn. Soc.
137:249–266.
- Meikle, R. D.
1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
- Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea.
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Olea europaea L.:
Images:
- More:
- 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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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?25555 (18 May 2013)
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