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Taxon: Pachysandra terminalis Siebold & Zucc.

Genus: Pachysandra
Family: Buxaceae.
Nomen number: 26291
Place of publication: Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4(2):142. 1845
Name verified on: 22-Oct-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-Oct-2009
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

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

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. (Zander Ency)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin) [natzd.].
  • Weakley, A. S. 2007. Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and surrounding areas. (F Carol Virg Georg)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
More:

Check other databases 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 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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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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?26291 (09 February 2010)

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