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Taxon: Cinnamomum tamala (Buch.-Ham.) T. Nees & Eberm.

Genus: Cinnamomum
Family: Lauraceae.
Nomen number: 400140
Place of publication: Handb. med.-pharm. Bot. 2:426. 1831
Name verified on: 05-Oct-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 05-Oct-2009
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • Indian-bark   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Indian-cassia   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  • chai gui   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • tejpat   (Source: Cornucopia ) – India
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Yunnan [w.]
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.]; Nepal

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
  • Chowdhery, H. J. & B. M. Wadhwa. 1984. Flora of Himachal Pradesh.
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
  • Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
  • 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.
  • Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
  • 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.
  • Werner, W. L. & T. Santisuk. 1993. Conservation and restoration of montane forest communities in Thailand. In: Lieth, H & M. Lohmann, eds., Restoration of tropical forest ecosystems. 201.
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
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Check other web resources for Cinnamomum tamala (Buch.-Ham.) T. Nees & Eberm.:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • 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
  • Google 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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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?400140 (20 May 2013)

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