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Taxon:  Olea europaea L. subsp. cuspidata (Wall. ex G. Don) Cif.



Summary
Genus:
Olea
Subgenus:
Olea
Section:
Olea
Family:
Oleaceae
Tribe:
Oleeae
Nomen number:
410990
Place of publication:
L'Olivicoltore 19:96. 1942
Verified:
01/29/2004 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Olea europaea L. (187 active accession[s])
Olea europaea L. subsp. cerasiformis G. Kunkel & Sunding (0 active accession[s])
Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea (0 active accession[s])
Olea europaea L. subsp. guanchica P. Vargas et al. (0 active accession[s])
Olea europaea L. subsp. laperrinei (Batt. & Trab.) Cif. (0 active accession[s])
Olea europaea L. subsp. maroccana (Greuter & Burdet) P. Vargas et al. (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Olea cuspidata Wall. ex G. Don

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Olea africana Mill.
Olea chrysophylla Lam.
Olea europaea L. subsp. africana (Mill.) P. S. Green
Olea ferruginea Royle
Olea sativa Hoffmanns. var. verrucosa (Willd.) Roem. & Schult.
Olea verrucosa (Willd.) Link
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Reference(s)
  1. Besnard, G. et al. 2007. On the origin of the invasive olives (Olea europaea L., Oleaceae). Heredity 99:608-619.
  2. Besnard, G. et al. 2008. Polyploidy in the olive complex (Olea europaea): Evidence from flow cytometry and nuclear microsatellite analyses. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 101:25-30. Note: as a diploid taxon
  3. Besnard, G. et al. 2009. Plastid and nuclear DNA polymorphism reveals historical processes of isolation and reticulation in the olive tree complex (Olea europaea). J. Biogeogr. 34:736-752.
  4. Boutelje, J. B. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. 1980
  5. Breton, C. et al. 2008. Reply to comment on Breton et al.: "Taming the wild and 'wilding' the tame: Tree breeding and dispersal in Australia and the Mediterranean". Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 175:208-209.
  6. Breton, C. et al. 2008. Taming the wild and 'wilding' the tame: Tree breeding and dispersal in Australia and the Mediterranean. Pl. Sci. (Elsevier) 175:197-205.
  7. Cuneo, P. & M. R. Leishman. 2006. African olive (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata) as an environmental weed in Australia: a review. Cunninghamia 9:545-577.
  8. Friis, I. Forests and forest trees of Northeast Tropical Africa. 1992
  9. Green, P. S. 2002. A revision of Olea L.. Kew Bull. 57:95-97.
  10. Hannachi, H. et al. 2009. Oleaster (var. sylvestris) and subsp. cuspidata are suitable genetic resources for improvement of the olive (Olea europaea subsp. europaea var. europaea). Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 56:393-403. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
  11. Médail, F. et al. 2001. Systematics, ecology and phylogeographic significance of Olea europaea L. ssp. maroccana (Greuter and Burdet) P. Vargas et al., a relictual olive tree in south-west Morocco. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 137:250.
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  13. Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource). http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/query2.cfm
  14. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
African olive –
brown olive –
wild olive –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEritrea  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSomalia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaAngola  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaEswatini  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaLesotho  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaNamibia  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth Africa  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaBurundi  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaZaire  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMadagascar  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMauritius  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanReunion  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaOman  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaSaudi Arabia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaSichuan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaAfghanistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Wales 
4NaturalizedPacificNorth-Central PacificUnited StatesHawaii 
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • CHINA: China [Sichuan, Yunnan]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal, Pakistan
Naturalized
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales]
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
wood (timber fide Teketay 1993, as O. africana) –


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