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Taxon: Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni

Genus: Stevia
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 35581
Place of publication: Anales Ci. Parag. ser. 1, 5:3. 1905
Name verified on: 28-Mar-2001 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Mar-2001
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • stevia   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • stévia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Stevia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • stévia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • erva-adocicada   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • erva-doce   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • estévia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • folha-doce   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Brazil: Brazil - Mato Grosso do Sul
    Southern South America: Paraguay - Amambay, Concepcion

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Andronova, E. A. et al. 1994. The developmental biology of Stevia rebaudiana in vivo and in vitro. In: Caligari, P. D. S. & D. J. N. Hind, eds., Compositae: biology and utilization. (Biol Util Comp) 2:179–183.
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Felippe, G. M. 1977. Cienc. Cult. 29:1240–1248.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • King, R. M. & H. Robinson. 1987. The genera of the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 22. (Gen Eupat)
  • Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  • Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Soejarto, D. et al. 1983. Bot. Mus. Leafl. 29:1–25.
  • Soejarto, D. et al. 1983. Potential sweetening agents of plant origin. II. Field search for sweet-tasting Stevia species. Econ. Bot. 37:71–79.
  • Spichiger, R., ed. 1985–. Flora del Paraguay. (F Parag)
  • Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) A:253.
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Check other databases for Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni:

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • 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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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?35581 (09 February 2010)

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