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Details for: NA 84915,
Buxus sempervirens
L., 2007-0864*A
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Buxus sempervirens
L.
Top Name:
2007-0864*A
Origin:
Collected – Macedonia, Greece
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
21 Dec 2017
Form Received:
Plant
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Buxus sempervirens
L.
Top Name:
2007-0864*A
Origin:
Collected – Macedonia, Greece
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
21 Dec 2017
Form Received:
Plant
Source History
Collected
14 September 2007.
Macedonia, Greece
Locality:
Near (south of) the village of Smesnica, south of Skopje.
Coordinates:
41.8182, 21.6307
(Map it)
Collector(s):
Anisko, Tomasz, Longwood Gardens
Accession Names and Identifiers
2007-0864*A
Type: Institute identifier
Longwood Gardens
NA 84915
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum
Narrative
Cuttings from one of two plants collected at this location. "One of the plants here was a tree form, but most had undesirable characteristics, as they were growing as understory plants in rather dark shade in the forest." Frierson, in Box. Soc. Bull. 47(4): Apr. 2008, p. 39.
Buxus sempervirens
L.
Genus:
Buxus
Family:
Buxaceae
Nomen number:
8212
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:983. 1753
Protologue link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359004
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
09/09/1986
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Buxus sempervirens
L. f.
sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens
L. var.
sempervirens
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Buxus colchica
Pojark.
Buxus hyrcana
Pojark.
Buxus myrtifolia
Lam.
Buxus sempervirens
L. f.
myrtifolia
(Lam.) C. K. Schneid.
Buxus sempervirens
L. f.
pendula
(Dallim.) Rehder
Buxus sempervirens
L. f.
prostrata
(Bean) Rehder
Buxus sempervirens
L. var.
myrtifolia
(Lam.) Sweet
Buxus sempervirens
L. var.
pendula
Dallim.
Buxus sempervirens
L. var.
prostrata
Bean
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
box
1
Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
English
boxtree
1
Batdorf, L. R.
2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
English
boxwood
1
1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English
boxwoodtree
1
Batdorf, L. R.
2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
English
Caucasian boxwood
1
Batdorf, L. R.
2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
English
common box
1
Mabberley, D. J.
1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
English
common boxwood
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English
European box
1
Mabberley, D. J.
1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
English
French boxwood
1
Batdorf, L. R.
2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
English
Persian boxwood
1
Batdorf, L. R.
2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
English
Turkish boxwood
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Portuguese (Brazil)
árvore-da-caixa
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)
buxinho
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)
buxo
2
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Swedish
buxbom
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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