Taxon: Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott

Common names:

• Chinese scholartree   (Source: Dict Gard [as Sophora japonica]) – English
  
• Japanese pagoda-tree   (Source: Dict Gard [as Sophora japonica]) – English
  
• pagoda-tree   (Source: Websters Dict [as Sophora japonica]) – English
  
• enju   (Source: F Okin [as Sophora japonica]) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• hoehwanamu   (Source: F korea [as Sophora japonica]) – Transcribed Korean
  
• pagodträd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: source of rutin   (fide Ency CNatIn; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):472. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Sophora japonica)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang

• also cultivated

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. [= Sophora japonica L.].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= Sophora japonica L.].
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Nicolson, D. H. 1982. Schott's new taxa published in the Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst etc. (1829-1830). Taxon 31:551.
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):472.
• Santamour, F. S., Jr. & L. G. H. Riedel. 1997. A new name for Sophora Japonica . J. Arboric. 23:166–167.
• Sousa S., M. & V. E. Rudd. 1993. Revision del genero Styphnolobium (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Sophoreae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80:273.
• Tsoong, P.-C. & C.-Y. Ma. 1981. A study of the genus Sophora Linn. (Cont.). Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19:162. [= Sophora japonica L.].
• Yakovlev, G. P. 1975. Rody triby Sophoreae (Bronn) DC. (sem. Fabaceae) flory SSR (Tribus Sophoreae (Bronn) DC. (Fabaceae) genera florae URSS). Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 12:228.
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= Sophora japonica].

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Sophora japonica L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Sophora japonica f. oligophylla Franch.
  
• (=) Sophora japonica f. pendula Zabel
  
• (=) Sophora japonica var. pubescens (Tausch) Bosse
  
• (=) Sophora japonica var. violacea Carrière
  

Check other web resources for Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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 or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• GRIN nodulation data

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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