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Taxon: Azalea nudiflora L.

Synonym of Rhododendron periclymenoides (Michx.) Shinners

Genus: Azalea
Family: Ericaceae
Nomen number: 6194
Place of publication: Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:214. 1762
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: an illegitimate, superfluous name (Vienna ICBN Art. 52) as Linnaeus included type of A. lutea L.
Name verified on: 15-Oct-1991 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Feb-2009
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

References:

  • Kron, K. A. 1993. A revision of Rhododendron section Pentanthera. Edinburgh J. Bot. 50:319.
  • Wilbur, R. L. 1976. Illegitimate names: Rhododendron nudiflorum (L.) Torr. and R. roseum (Loisel.) Rehder. Taxon 25:178–179.
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Check other databases for Azalea nudiflora L.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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?6194 (09 February 2010)

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