Taxus brevifolia

Taxus brevifolia, Oregon State University McDonald-Dunn Research Forest, Corvallis, Oregon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pinales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pinophyta Classis: Pinopsida Ordo: Pinales

Familia: Taxaceae
Genus: Taxus
Species: Taxus brevifolia

Name

Taxus brevifolia Nutt., N. Amer. Sylv. 3: 86 (1849).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Taxus baccata subsp. brevifolia (Nutt.) Pilger, Planzenreich 4(5): 113. 1903.
  • Taxus baccata var. brevifolia (Nutt.) Koehne, Deutsche Dendrol. 6. 1893.
• Heterotypic
  • Taxus brevifolia var. polychaeta Spjut, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1 (1): 217. 2007.
  • Taxus brevifolia var. reptaneta Spjut, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1 (1): 219. 2007.

References

Primary references

• Nuttall, T. 1849. Vol. 3. The North American Sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux, and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the Territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into the confines of California, as well as various parts of the United States. 148 pp. Philadelphia. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Taxus brevifolia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.
• USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database, 6 March 2006 (http://plants.usda.gov).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Pazifische Eibe
English: Pacific Yew
suomi: Lännenmarjakuusi
Nederlands: West-amerikaanse taxus
norsk: Stillehavsbarlind

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