Taxon: Pinus merkusii Jungh. & de Vriese

Genus:

Pinus

Subgenus:

Pinus

Section:

Pinus

Subsection:

Pinus

Family:

Pinaceae

Nomen number:

28483

Place of publication:

Pl. nov. Ind. bat. 5, t. 2. 1845

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

16-may-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 30-sep-2008

Species priority site is:

National Arboretum (NA)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Merkus pine (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
Mindoro pine (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
Sumatra pine (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - English
Tenasserim pine (Source: Pines) - English
Merkus Kiefer (Source: Zander ed17) - German
tusam (Source: Pl Res SEAs) - Indonesian
nan ya song (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

Fuels: fuelwood (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:99. 2000)
Materials: gum/resin (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:99. 2000)
Materials: wood (fide Pl Res SEAs 18:99. 2000)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China [Guangdong (s.w.), Guangxi (s.), Hainan]

Asia-Tropical

INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (s.), Thailand, Vietnam
MALESIA: Indonesia, [Sumatra (n.)] Philippines

References:

Aubréville, A. et al., eds. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. 1960- (F CambLVN)
Boer, E. & A. B. Ella, eds. 2000. Plants producing exudates (Pl Res SEAs) 18:98.
Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
Farjon, A. Pines, drawings and descriptions of the genus Pinus. 1984 (Pines)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Pinus merkusii Jungh. & de Vriese :

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
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=28483. Accessed 13 mayo 2024.