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Taxon: Rhododendron macrophyllum D. Don ex G. Don

Genus: Rhododendron subgenus: Hymenanthes section: Ponticum
Family: Ericaceae subfamily: Ericoideae tribe: Rhodoreae.
Nomen number: 31433
Place of publication: Gen. hist. 3:843. 1834
Comment: authorship verified from original literature
Name verified on: 10-May-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 20-Nov-2003
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 2 in National Plant Germplasm System.


Common names:

  • California rose bay   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  • Californian rosebay   (Source: BSBI ) – English

Economic importance:

  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Chamberlain, D.F. 1982. A revision of Rhododendron II. Subgenus Hymenanthes. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 39:317.
  • Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Rhododendron macrophyllum D. Don ex G. Don:

  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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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?31433 (09 February 2010)

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