Taxon: Torreya taxifolia Arn.

Species on the following lists:

• Center for Plant Conservation
  
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Endangered
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• Florida torreya   (Source: US Fish & Wildl List ) – English
  
• gopherwood   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• stinking-cedar   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida [Gadsden, Jackson, & Liberty Cos.], Georgia [Decatur Co.]

References:

• Center for Plant Conservation. Center for Plant Conservation National Collection of Endangered Plants (on-line resource).
• Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle.
• Cope, E. A. 1998. Taxaceae: the genera and cultivated species. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 64:316.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. 2:426–427.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Torreya taxifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Torreya taxifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Torreya taxifolia.

Check other web resources for Torreya taxifolia Arn.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• 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:

• Seeds with/without aril: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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