Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Olea europaea L. subsp. cuspidata (Wall. ex G. Don) Cif.

Genus: Olea subgenus: Olea section: Olea
Family: Oleaceae tribe: Oleeae.
Nomen number: 410990
Place of publication: L'Olivicoltore 19:96. 1942
Name verified on: 29-Jan-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Jan-2004
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 5 in National Plant Germplasm System.

See other conspecific taxa:

Olea europaea (151 accessions)
Olea europaea subsp. cerasiformis (no accessions)
Olea europaea subsp. europaea (4 accessions)
Olea europaea subsp. guanchica (no accessions)
Olea europaea subsp. laperrinei (no accessions)
Olea europaea subsp. maroccana (no accessions)

Common names:

brown olive (Source: Ency WTimber ) – English
wild olive (Source: Ency WTimber ) – English

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

Gene sources: potential gene source for olive (fide Bot J Linn Soc 137:250. 2001)
Materials: wood (timber fide Teketay 1993, as O. africana)

Distributional range:

Native:

AFRICA
Northern Africa: Egypt
Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Rwanda; Zaire
South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran
China: China - Sichuan, Yunnan
ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan

References:

Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
Friis, I. 1992. Forests and forest trees of Northeast Tropical Africa.
Green, P. S. 2002. A revision of Olea L. Kew Bull. 57:95–97.
Médail, F. et al. 2001. Systematics, ecology and phylogeographic significance of Olea europaea L. ssp. maroccana (Greuter and Burdet) P. Vargas et al., a relictual olive tree in south-west Morocco. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 137:250.
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

Synonyms:

(=) Olea africana Mill.
(previously associated with 2 accessions)
(=) Olea chrysophylla Lam.
(previously associated with 9 accessions)
(≡) Olea cuspidata Wall. ex G. Don (basionym)
(previously associated with 1 accession)
(=) Olea europaea subsp. africana (Mill.) P. S. Green
(previously associated with 9 accessions)
(=) Olea ferruginea Royle
(previously associated with 6 accessions)
(=) Olea sativa var. verrucosa (Willd.) Roem. & Schult.
(=) Olea verrucosa (Willd.) Link
(previously associated with 13 accessions)

Check other web resources for Olea europaea L. subsp. cuspidata (Wall. ex G. Don) Cif.:

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.