Taxon: Rosa chinensis Jacq.

 
Genus: Rosa
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Tribe: Roseae
Nomen number: 5318
Place of publication: Observ. bot. 3:7, t. 55. 1768
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 15-feb-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 04-ago-2006
Species priority site is: National Arboretum (NA)
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

Common names:

  • Bengal rose  (Source: Dict Gard) - English
  • China rose  (Source: Dict Gard) - English
  • China-Rose  (Source: Zander ed16) - German
  • kōshin-bara  (Source: F Okin) - Japanese Rōmaji
  • yue ji  (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2) - Transcribed Chinese
  • yue ji hua  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
  • wolgyehwa  (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental (fide Krussmann; Hortus 3; Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  • Gene sources: ornamental features (fide Dict Gard)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Asia-Temperate
    • CHINA: China [Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan]


    Cultivated (widely cult.)

References:

  1. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. 2000 (Zander ed16)
  2. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  3. Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. (F Korea)
  4. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  5. Walker, E. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  6. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Rosa chinensis Jacq. :

  • 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=5318. Accessed 18 mayo 2024.