Taxon: Torilis japonica (Houtt.) DC.

Common names:

• upright hedge-parsley   (Source: M. F. Watson, p.c.) – English
  
• yabujirami   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• cerefólio-de-cerca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• salsa-trepadeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• rödkörvel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide M. G. Pimenov, pers. comm. 1996)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Israel; Jordan; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
  China: China - Heilongjiang, Nei Monggol, Xinjiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Pimenov, M. G. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Watson, M. F. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Caucalis japonica Houtt. (basionym)
  
• (=) Torilis anthriscus (L.) C. C. Gmel.
  

Check other web resources for Torilis japonica (Houtt.) DC.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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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