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Taxon:
Garcinia cowa
Roxb. ex DC.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Garcinia
Family:
Clusiaceae
(alt. Guttiferae)
Nomen number:
71000
Place of publication:
Prodr. 1:561. 1824 (W. Roxburgh, Fl. ind. 2:622. 1832)
Protologue link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/788393
Comment:
authorship verified from original literature
Verified:
08/22/2008
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
Maheshwari, J. K.
1965. Taxonomic studies on Indian Guttiferae. III. The genus
Garcinia
Linn. s.l. Bull. Bot. Surv. India 6:131-132.
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/TROPICOS/china/welcome.html
Nazre, M. et al.
2007. Phylogenetic relationships of locally cultivated
Garcinia
species with some wild relatives. Malaysian Appl. Biol. 36:31-40.
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Ruhfel, B. R. et al.
2011. Phylogeny of the Clusioid clade (Malpighiales): Evidence from the plastid and mitochondrial genomes. Amer. J. Bot. 98:306-325.
URL:
http://www.amjbot.org
Sharma, B. D. et al., eds.
1993-. Flora of India.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
cowa –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
yun shu –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
China
China
Yunnan Sheng
s. & w.
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Bangladesh
e.
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Assam
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Bihar
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Meghalaya
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Nagaland
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Odisha
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Sikkim
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
Tripura
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
West Bengal
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Cambodia
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
India
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Laos
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Myanmar
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Thailand
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Vietnam
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Malaysia
2
Cultivated
also cult.
Native
Asia-Temperate
CHINA:
China
[Yunnan Sheng (s. & w.)]
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bangladesh
(e.),
India
[Sikkim, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Tripura, West Bengal]
INDO-CHINA:
India
[Andaman and Nicobar Islands],
Cambodia
,
Laos
,
Myanmar
,
Thailand
,
Vietnam
MALESIA:
Malaysia
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Food additives
flavoring
locally used in Asia
Nazre, M. et al.
2007. Phylogenetic relationships of locally cultivated
Garcinia
species with some wild relatives. Malaysian Appl. Biol. 36:31-40.
Medicines
folklore
Sharma, B. D. et al., eds.
1993-. Flora of India.
Medicines
folklore
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Name
References