Taxon: Pinus elliottii Engelm.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Pinus elliottii var. densa (no accessions)

Common names:

• American pitch pine   (Source: Ency WTimber ) – English
  
• longleaf pitch pine   (Source: Ency WTimber ) – English
  
• slash pine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• South Florida slash pine   (Source: F Neotrop 75:94.1997) – English   [Pinus elliottii var. densa]
  
• swamp pine   (Source: AH 519 ) – English
  
• basden   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• shi di song   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• pino di Elliot   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: fiber   (for wood pulp and for miscellaneous purposes fide AH 519; HerbSpices; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Materials: gum/resin   (for wood pulp and for miscellaneous purposes fide AH 519; HerbSpices; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Materials: wood   (for wood pulp and for miscellanoeus purposes fide AH 519; HerbSpices; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [s.], Florida, Georgia [s.], Louisiana [s.e.], Mississippi [s.], South Carolina

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia

• also cultivated

References:

• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Farjon, A. & B. T. Styles. 1997. Pinus (Pinaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 75:91. [var. densa].
• Fowells, H. A. 1965. Silvics of forest trees of the United States.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two varieties].
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Silba, J. 1986. Encyclopaedia Coniferae. Phytologia Mem. 8:141.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pinus elliottii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pinus elliottii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pinus elliottii.

Check other web resources for Pinus elliottii Engelm.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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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