Taxon: Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H. Wendl.

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Common names:

• Chinese windmill palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Chusan fan palm   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Chusan palm   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• hemp palm   (Source: Websters Dict [as T. excelsa]) – English
  
• windmill palm   (Source: Gent Herb 2:190.1930) – English
  
• palmier de Chine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• chinesische Hanfpalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• hochstämmige Hanfpalme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• shuro   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• wa-juro   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• palmeira-moinho-de-vento-da-China   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• palma de jardín   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• väderkvarnspalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann; Gentes Herb 2:188. 1930)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Chin Herb Med, as Trachycarpus wagnerianus)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [c. & e.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Myanmar [n.]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan [s.]

• also cultivated

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).
• Bailey, L. H. 1930. Binomials of certain palms. Gentes Herb. 2:188–191.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. 2005. World checklist of palms.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:169.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Zhong Guo & Hua Jing. 1993. China floral encyclopaedia.
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= T. excelsa].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trachycarpus fortunei.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Trachycarpus fortunei.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trachycarpus fortunei.

Synonyms:

• (=) Chamaerops excelsa hort.
  
• (≡) Chamaerops fortunei Hook. (basionym)
  
• (=) Trachycarpus wagnerianus hort. ex Becc.
  

Check other web resources for Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H. Wendl.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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