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Taxon: Rhododendron occidentale (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray

Genus: Rhododendron subgenus: Hymenanthes section: Pentanthera
Family: Ericaceae subfamily: Ericoideae tribe: Rhodoreae.
Nomen number: 31489
Place of publication: W. H. Brewer & S. Watson, Bot. California 1:458. 1876
Name verified on: 10-May-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Sep-2011
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.


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

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).
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
  • Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
  • Kron, K. A. 1993. A revision of Rhododendron section Pentanthera. Edinburgh J. Bot. 50:317–319.
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
  • Webster's third new international dictionary.
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Check other web resources for Rhododendron occidentale (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray:

  • 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
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Rhododendron occidentale cultivars
  • 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.

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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?31489 (21 May 2013)

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