Taxon: Ribes bracteosum Douglas

• authorship verified from original literature
• both the name and its validating diagnosis were simultaneously ascribed to Douglas, so he is the author of the name (see Melbourne ICN Art. 46, Ex. 9)

Common names:

• stink currant   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: growth habit for black currant   (fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 180, 191. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: high yields for black currant   (for improving mechanical harvesting fide Keep, Adv. fruit breeding 202. 1975)
  
• Gene sources: late maturity for black currant   (fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 180. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of black currant   (based on crossability with Ribes nigrum Temp Fruit Cr Breed 191. 2008)
  

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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)
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska [s.e.]
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [n.w.]

References:

• Brennan, R. M. 2008. Chapter 6. Currants and gooseberries. In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 177–196.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Hummer, K. E. & D. L. Barney. 2002. Currants. HortTechnol. 12:377–387.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Keep, E. 1975. Currants and gooseberries. In: Janick, J. & J. N. Moore, eds., Advances in fruit breeding. 202.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ribes bracteosum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ribes bracteosum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ribes bracteosum.

Check other web resources for Ribes bracteosum Douglas:

• 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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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