Carya alba information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Carya alba (L.) Nutt.

Synonym of Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.

Genus: Carya section: Carya
Family: Juglandaceae
Nomen number: 9249
Place of publication: Gen. N. Amer. pl. 2:221. 1818 (ex Elliott, Sketch bot. S. Carolina 2:624. 1824; K. Koch, Dendrologie 1:596. 1869)
Comments:

an ambiguous name
Nuttall indirectly refers to Juglans alba L. by citing Juglans species of L. & Willd. under his genus Carya
non Carya alba auct. (= C. ovata (Mill.) K. Koch)
conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.9)\; review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database

Name verified on: 06-Oct-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-May-2013
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

References:

Barrie, F. R. 2011. Report of the General Committee: 11. Taxon 60:1212. [proposal recommended].
Brummitt, R. K. 2010. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 61. Taxon 59:1273. [proposal recommended].
FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
Rehder, A. 1945. Carya alba proposed as nomen ambiguum. J. Arnold Arbor. 26:482–483. [= C. ovata (Mill.) K. Koch].
Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs. [= C. ovata (Mill.) K. Koch].
Ward, D. B. & J. H. Wiersema. 2008. (1807) Proposal to reject the name Juglans alba (Carya alba) (Juglandaceae). Taxon 57:308–310.

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Check other web resources for Carya alba (L.) Nutt.:

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
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.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?9249 (22 May 2013)

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