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Taxon: Canscora alata (Roth) Wall.

Genus: Canscora
Family: Gentianaceae tribe: Chironieae subtribe: Canscorinae.
Nomen number: 418842
Place of publication: Numer. List 153, no. 4363. 1831
Name verified on: 09-Aug-2001 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Jun-2009
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:


Economic importance:


Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Gabon; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
    South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia
    Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar [n.]
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand [n.]

References:

  • Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. (F Madag)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Thiv, M. 2003. A taxonomic revision of Canscora, Cracosna, Duplipetala, Hoppea, Microrphium, Phyllocyclus, and Schinziella (Gentianaceae - Canscorinae). Blumea 48:6.
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Canscora alata (Roth) Wall.:

  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • 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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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?418842 (22 November 2009)

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