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Details for: PI 109778,
Euphorbia tithymaloides
L., Candelilla
Summary
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Euphorbia tithymaloides
L.
Top Name:
Candelilla
Origin:
Collected – Maryland, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Mar 1935
PI Assigned:
1935
Inventory Volume:
122
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Euphorbia tithymaloides
L.
Top Name:
Candelilla
Origin:
Collected – Maryland, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Mar 1935
PI Assigned:
1935
Source History
Collected
Maryland, United States
Collector(s):
Office of Crop Physiology and Breeding Investigations
U.S. Plant Introduction Station
Accession Names and Identifiers
Candelilla
Type: Local name
CPB 13104
Type: Collector identifier
Narrative
Euphorbia tithymaloides
L.
Genus:
Euphorbia
Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:
Euphorbioideae
Tribe:
Euphorbieae
Subtribe:
Euphorbiinae
Nomen number:
417941
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:453. 1753
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
12/15/2009
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
(L.) Poit.
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
devil's-backbone
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
1
Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Note:
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
English
Japanese-poinsettia
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Note:
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
English
milkbush
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
1
Howard, R.
1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
Note:
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
English
redbird-cactus
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
1
1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English
redbird-flower
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Note:
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
English
slipper-flower
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Note:
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
English
slipperplant
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
1
Howard, R.
1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
Note:
as
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
Swedish
skobuske
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Name
References
Annotations
Nomenclature Name Change:
15 Dec 2009, from
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
(L.) Poit. to
Euphorbia tithymaloides
L.
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