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Taxon: Quararibea turbinata (Sw.) Poir.

Genus: Quararibea
Family: Malvaceae subfamily: Bombacoideae. Also placed in: Bombacaceae
Nomen number: 30631
Place of publication: Encycl. suppl. 4:636. 1816
Name verified on: 20-Oct-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 10-Mar-2003
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • swizzlestick-tree   (Source: F LAnt ) – English

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Barbados; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles - St. Eustatius; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines - St. Vincent; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix, St. John

References:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
  • Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
  • Gooding, E. G. et al. 1965. Flora of Barbados.
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  • Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
  • Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
  • Moscoso, R. M. 1943. Catalogus florae domingensis.
  • Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname.
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Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Quararibea turbinata (Sw.) Poir.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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.

Check other web resources for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?30631 (21 May 2013)

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