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Taxon: Vinca major L.

Genus: Vinca
Family: Apocynaceae subfamily: Rauvolfioideae tribe: Vinceae.
Nomen number: 41679
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:209. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 01-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • greater periwinkle   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  • large periwinkle   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • pervinca-maior   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • vinca-pendente   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Italy [incl. Sicily]
    Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized elsewhere, especially Mediterranean region

      Other:
  • exact native range obscure

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) Art. 23.5, Ex. 5.
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) 4:664.
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Check other databases for Vinca major L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Vinca major cultivars
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?41679 (09 February 2010)

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