Taxon: Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill.

Common names:

• Chinese magnolia-vine   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• five-flavor-fruit   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• magnolia-vine   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• schisandra   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• wu wei zi   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• chinesisches Spaltkölbchen   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• omija   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• fjärilsranka   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Shandong, Shanxi
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu [n. & c.]; Korea

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. ["Schizandra"].
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:128.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Saunders, R. M. K. 2000. Monograph of Schisandra (Schisandraceae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 58:94.
• Saunders, R. M. K. 2001. Schisandraceae. In: Orchard, A. E., ed., Species Plantarum: Flora of the World. Canberra. 4:19.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Schisandra chinensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Schisandra chinensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Schisandra chinensis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Kadsura chinensis Turcz. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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