Gelsemium elegans information from NPGS/GRIN

United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area
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Taxon: Gelsemium elegans (Gardner & Champ.) Benth.

Genus: Gelsemium
Family: Gelsemiaceae. Also placed in: Loganiaceae
Nomen number: 411864
Place of publication: J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 1:90. 1857
Name verified on: 16-Sep-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

gou wen (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese

Economic importance:

Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide F ChinaEng; F Males; Leafl Hong Kong Herb 6:3. 2002)

More:

View toxicology references for Gelsemium elegans from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

ASIA-TEMPERATE
China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang
Eastern Asia: Taiwan
ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India
Indo-China: Laos; Myanmar [n.]; Thailand [n.]
Malesia: Indonesia - Kalimantan, Sumatra; Malaysia - Sabah, Sarawak

References:

Leafl. Hong Kong Herb. 6:3.
Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Gelsemium elegans.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Gelsemium elegans.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Gelsemium elegans.

Synonyms:

(≡) Medicia elegans Gardner & Champ. (basionym)

Check other web resources for Gelsemium elegans (Gardner & Champ.) Benth.:

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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

Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?411864 (20 June 2013)

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