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Taxon:  Nicotiana tabacum L.



Summary
Genus:
Nicotiana
Section:
Nicotiana
Family:
Solanaceae
Subfamily:
Nicotianoideae
Nomen number:
25309
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:180. 1753
Comment:
valid publication verified from original literature
Verified:
04/23/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Nicotiana chinensis Fisch. ex Lehm.
Nicotiana tabacum L. var. macrophylla (Lehm.) Schrank
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Reference(s)
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    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Clarkson, J. J. et al. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships in Nicotiana (Solanaceae) inferred from multiple plastid DNA regions. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 33:75-90. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10557903
  3. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
  4. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  5. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  6. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
  7. Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Nicotiana+tabacum&quantity=1
  9. Goodspeed, T. H. 1954. The genus Nicotiana. Chron. Bot. 16:372.
  10. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  11. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
  12. Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
  13. Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985 Note: poisonous
  14. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  15. Lim, K. Y. et al. 2004. Genome evolution in allotetraploid Nicotiana. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 82:599-606. Note: shows evidence that the T-genome donor may have derived from a previous introgression event involving N. otophora; also all natural tobacco genotypes have intergenomic translocations prob. due to parental phylogenetic divergence
  16. Lim, K. Y. et al. 2006. A genetic appraisal of a new synthetic Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae) and the Kostoff synthetic tobacco. Amer. J. Bot. 93:875-883. http://www.amjbot.org
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  18. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  19. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:111.
  20. Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource). http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/pp/poison?p_x=px
  21. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  22. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
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  24. Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 16:93. http://proseanet.org
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Common names
English
tobacco –
French
tabac –
tabac commun –
German
Tabak –
virginischer Tabak –
Italian
tabacco –
Spanish
tabaco –
Swedish
virginiatobak –
Transcribed Chinese
yan cao –
Transcribed Korean
dambae –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    widely cult.
6Other    origin South America
Cultivated (widely cult.)
Other (origin South America)
Economic Uses
Medicines
Social
masticatory (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:94. 2000) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann) –


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