Taxon: Prunus armeniaca L. var. armeniaca

Genus:

Prunus

Subgenus:

Prunus

Section:

Armeniaca

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Amygdaloideae

Tribe:

Amygdaleae

Nomen number:

462908

Place of publication:

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

04-abr-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 04-abr-2011

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

See other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(≡) Amygdalus armeniaca (L.) Dumort.
(=) Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.
(=) Prunus armeniaca var. holosericea Batalin
(=) Prunus armeniaca var. vulgaris Zabel

Common names:

Tibetan apricot (Source: Temp Fruit Cr Breed) - English

Economic Importance:

Human food: fruit (fide F ChinaEng)
Gene sources: primary genetic relative of apricot (fide Breed Pl Tree Crops 83. 2009)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan
CHINA: China [Hebei, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang]

Cultivated

(widely cult.)

Reference:

Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Prunus armeniaca L. var. armeniaca :

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. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=462908. Accessed 6 junio 2026.