Taxon: Pistacia vera L.

Common names:

• green-almond   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• pistachio   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• fustuq   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Arabic
  
• pistache   (Source: Websters Dict ) – French
  
• pistachier   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• pistachier cultivé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• echte Pistazie   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Pistazie   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• Pistazienbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• pistacchio   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• alfónsico   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Portuguese
  
• pistacheira   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Portuguese
  
• alfónsigo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• pistachero   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pistasch   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: nut   (fide Pl Book; Wealth India RM)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of pistachio   (fide Sci. Hort. 128:249?254.)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan [n.]; Iran [n.e.]
  Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan

• also cultivated

References:

• Al-Saghir, M. G. 2010. Perspective on chromosome numbers in the genus Pistacia L. (Anacardiaceae). Int. J. Pl. Breed. Genetics 4:153–157. [this review examined chromosome number reports for species of Pistacia and concluded that the basic number is x=15].
• 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).
• Arabnezhad, H. et al. 2011. Evaluation of genetic relationships among Iranian pistachios using microsatellite markers developed from Pistacia khinjuk Stocks. Sci. Hort. 128:249–254. [this study examined wild and cultivated samples of Pistacia vera; it supported previous findings that consider that the wild pistachios, as the highly genetically diverse "var. Sarakhs" are the progenitors of Iranian pistachio cultivars].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hormaza, J. I. & A. Wünsch. 2011. Chapter 6. Pistacia. Pp. 119–128 in: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, temperate fruits. [this review commented that Pistacia vera is the only species in the genus commercially cultivated].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kafkas, S. & R. Perl-Treves. 2002. Interspecific relationships in Pistacia based on RAPD fingerprinting. HortScience 37:168–171.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Parfitt, D. E. & M. L. Badenes. 1997. Phylogeny of the genus Pistacia as determined from analysis of the chloroplast genome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94:7987–7992. [this study considered both Pistacia vera and P. khinjuk as "primitive species" in the genus].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Yi, T. et al. 2008. Phylogenetics and reticulate evolution in Pistacia (Anacardiaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 95:241–251.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pistacia vera.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pistacia vera.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pistacia vera.

Check other web resources for Pistacia vera L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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.

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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