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Taxon:  Pistacia vera L.



Summary
Genus:
Pistacia
Family:
Anacardiaceae
Subfamily:
Anacardioideae
Nomen number:
28655
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1025. 1753
Comment:
valid publication verified from original literature
Verified:
11/15/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
160 (160  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. AL-Saghir, M. G. & D. M. Porter. 2012. Taxonomy revision of the genus Pistacia L. (Anacardiaceae). Amer. J. Pl. Sci. 3:23-24. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ajps
  3. Al-Saghir, M. G. 2010. Perspective on chromosome numbers in the genus Pistacia L. (Anacardiaceae). Int. J. Pl. Breed. Genet. 4:153-157. Note: this review examined chromosome number reports for species of Pistacia and concluded that the basic number is x=15
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  5. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi. 1948-1976
  6. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  7. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
  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=Pistacia+vera&quantity=1
  9. Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. Edible Horticultural Crops. 1982 Note: Academic Press
  10. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
  11. Hormaza, J. I. & A. Wünsch. Chapter 6. Pistacia. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, temperate fruits. 2011 119-128. Note: this review commented that Pistacia vera is the only species in the genus commercially cultivated
  12. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  13. Kafkas, S. & R. Perl-Treves. 2002. Interspecific relationships in Pistacia based on RAPD fingerprinting. HortScience 37:168-171.
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  15. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  16. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
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  18. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  19. 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
  20. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  21. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  22. Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
  23. Rosengarten, F. The book of edible nuts. 1984
  24. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. Flora of Iraq. 1966-
  25. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
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  27. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
green-almond –
pistachio –
French
pistache –
pistachier –
pistachier cultivé –
German
echte Pistazie –
Pistazie –
Pistazienbaum –
Italian
pistacchio –
Portuguese
alfónsico –
pistacheira –
Spanish
alfónsigo –
pistachero –
Swedish
pistasch –
Transliterated Arabic
fustuq –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKazakhstan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKyrgyzstan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTajikistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTurkmenistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaUzbekistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaAfghanistan n.
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran n.e.
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan (n.), Iran (n.e.)
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
Human food


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