External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30003872-2
- Publication
- Species Plantarum
- Collation
- 1: 388
- Date of Publication
- 1 Mai 1753
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Anacardiaceae
Type Information
- Type Name
- Designated type: S. molle L.
- Chosen By
- Hitchc. Nom. Prop. Brit. Bot. 153. 1929 [Aug 1929]
Nomenclatural Notes
et in Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 184 (1754)
Remarks
Linnaeus ((Phil. Bot. 192, 3rd column. 1754) derived the genus name Schinus from schinos, an ancient Greek name, used by Dioscoredes pertaining to some trees. As a tradition, such classical tree names are treated as feminine