Taxon: Fragaria chiloensis (L.) Mill.

Genus:

Fragaria

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Rosoideae

Tribe:

Potentilleae

Subtribe:

Fragariinae

Nomen number:

246

Place of publication:

Gard. dict. ed. 8: Fragaria no. 4. 1768 (A. N. Duchesne, Hist. nat. frais. 165. 1766, as "races principales")

Link to protologue:

Comment:

Duchesne's (1766) usage of binary names for "races principales" do not qualify as species names

Typification:

Name Verified on:

24-mar-2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 24-mar-2006

Species priority site is:

Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

See other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

beach strawberry (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
Chilean strawberry (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
Chiloe strawberry (Source: Zander ed16) - English
chilère (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
fraisier du Chili (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Chileerdbeere (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
moranguiero-do-Chile (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
fresa chilena (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
frutilla (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Human food: fruit (fide Cornucopia)
Gene sources: primary genetic relative of strawberry (fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 131:506. 2006; Acta Hort 265:32. 1989, as octoploid, 2n=56)
Gene sources: progenitor of strawberry (fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 131:506-512. 2006; Acta Hort 265:32. 1989, as octoploid, 2n=56)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

SUBARCTIC AMERICA: United States [Alaska (s. (coastal))]
WESTERN CANADA: Canada [British Columbia (coastal)]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Oregon (coastal), Washington (coastal)]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California (coastal)]

Pacific

NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

Southern America

SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina (s.), Chile (s.)

Cultivated

Southern America

WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina (w.?), Chile

References:

Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. 2000 (Zander ed16)
Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 (Cornucopia)
Hitchcock, C. L. et al. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. 1955-1969 (F Pacif NW)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Scoggan, H. J. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. 1978-1979 (F Canada)
Staudt, G. 1989. The species of Fragaria, their taxonomy and geographical distribution Acta Hort. 265:29.
Staudt, G. 1962. Taxonomic studies in the genus Fragaria. Typification of Fragaria species known at the time of Linnaeus Canad. J. Bot. 40:881.
Staudt, G. 1999. Systematics and geographical distribution of the American strawberry species. Taxonomic studies in the genus Fragaria (Rosaceae: Potentilleae) Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 81:100.

Check other web resources for Fragaria chiloensis (L.) Mill. :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=246. Accessed 5 julio 2024.