Family:
Ericaceae Durande
Genus:
Pieris D.Don

Pieris japonica (Thunb.) D.Don ex G.Don

This species is accepted, and its native range is SE. China (to Hubei), Japan, Taiwan.

Native to:

China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Taiwan

Introduced into:

Vermont

Pieris japonica (Thunb.) D.Don ex G.Don appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Jan 1, 1978 La Touche, J.de [68], China K000780210 isotype
La Touche, J.de [68], China K000780211
Rico, L. [s.n.], United Kingdom K000661612

First published in Gen. Hist. 3: 832 (1834)

Accepted by

  • Gilman, A.V. (2015). New flora of Vermont Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 110: 1-614.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2005). Flora of China 14: 1-581. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Gilman, A.V. (2015). New flora of Vermont Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 110: 1-614.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2005). Flora of China 14: 1-581. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

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