Taxus contorta Griff.

, Not. Pl. Asiat. 4: 28 (as contortus) (1854). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:263797-1
Publication
Posthumous papers bequeathed to the East India company, and printed by order of the government of Bengal: Notulæ ad Plantas Asiaticas / by the late William Griffith ... arranged by John M'Clelland. Calcutta
Collation
4: 28 (as contortus)
Family as entered in IPNI
Taxaceae

Type Information

Locality
Kafiristhan (in Itin. Pl. Khasyah Mts. 351. 1848)
Distribution Of Types
Afghanistan (Western Asia, Asia-Temperate)

Nomenclatural Notes

addit. publ.: Ic. Pl. Asiat. 4: t. 376 (as contortis), index p. x (as contortas). 1854

Remarks

The publication Not. Pl. Asiat. (1954) has been perceived to have priority over Ic. Pl. Asiat. (1954) [see the ICN Art. 11.5]

Links

Basionym of
Taxus wallichiana subsp. contorta (Griff.) Silba, J. Int. Conifer Preserv. Soc. 17(1): 24 (2010).