Taxon: Pachysandra terminalis Siebold & Zucc.

Common names:

• carpet-box   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Japanese pachysandra   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Japanese-spurge   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• japanischer Ysander   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• skuggröna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander Ency)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku

• also cultivated

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).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. [natzd.].
• Weakley, A. S. 2007. Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and surrounding areas.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pachysandra terminalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pachysandra terminalis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pachysandra terminalis.

Check other web resources for Pachysandra terminalis Siebold & Zucc.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Pachysandra terminalis 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.

Images:

• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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