Details for: NA 79181, Aesculus chinensis Bunge, NACPEC08047


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Aesculus chinensis Bunge
Top Name:
NACPEC08047
Origin:
Collected – Shaanxi Sheng, China
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
Oct 2008
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Aesculus chinensis Bunge
Top Name:
NACPEC08047
Origin:
Collected – Shaanxi Sheng, China
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
Oct 2008
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
Source History
Collected
29 September 2008.
Shaanxi Sheng, China
Locality: Nan Wu Tai. (Latitude should read: 33 degrees, 59.62' N - can't input due to BG-Base bug)
Coordinates: 34.0000, 108.9698 (Map it)
Elevation: 1292m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: dry, mixed deciduous forest.
Number of plants sampled: 3
Associated species: Pinus tabuliformis; Quercus aliena; Koelreuteria paniculata; Cladrastis sinensis; Acer sterculiaceum subsp. franchetii; Fraxinus insularis
Aspect: West; Slope: 30
Comment: DESCRIPTION: Tree. Height: 20m. D.B.H.: 60cm. Bark: brown; scaly in small patches (typical of genus). Leaves: opposite; palmately compound; usually 7 leaflets; leaflets up ot approx. 25cm long. Fruit: yellow capsules with 2-3 seeds in each.; SUB-COUNTRY GEO 2: Chang'an; SUB-COUNTRY GEO 3: Wu Tai; COLLECTOR'S NUMBER: NACPEC08-047; MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ABOUT WILD COLLECTION: Photographed. Three herbarium specimens collected. Samples collected from several plants.;
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
NACPEC08047
Type: Collector identifier
Chris Carley (U.S. National Arboretum); Anthony "Tony" Aiello (Morris Arboretum), and Kris Bachtell (Morton Arboretum): NACPEC Expedition to Shaanxi Province, China, 2008. Collected with Li Bin (Xi'an Botanical Garden) and Wang Kang (Beijing Botanical Garden).

NA 79181
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative
Aesculus chinensis Bunge
Genus:
Aesculus
Section:
Calothyrsus
Family:
Sapindaceae
Subfamily:
Hippocastanoideae
Nomen number:

1625
Place of publication:

Enum. pl. China bor. 10. 1833 (Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg Divers Savans 2:84. 1835)
Verified:
01/02/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Aesculus chinensis Bunge var. chinensis (0 active accession[s])
Aesculus chinensis Bunge var. wilsonii (Rehder) Turland & N. H. Xia (1 active accession[s])
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Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishChinese horse-chestnut  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Germanchinesische Rosskastanie  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1182.
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