Taxon: Rhus chinensis Mill.

Common names:

• Chinese gall   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Chinese sumac   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• nutgall   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• nutgalltree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Gallen-Sumach   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide L Edible Pl; F Bhutan)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (for dyeing silk fide Pl Book)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India
  Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Sumatra

• also cultivated

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. [= R. javanica L.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• 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.). [= of R. javanica L.].
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. [= of R. javanica L.].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Rhus javanica auct.
  
• (=) Rhus semialata Murray
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Rhus chinensis Mill.:

• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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