Betula pendula

Taxonomy ID: 3505 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:3505)

current name

Betula pendula  Roth, 1788

Genbank common name: European white birch
NCBI BLAST name: eudicots
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

Betula verrucosa  Ehrh.

common name(s)

white birch

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; fabids; Fagales; Betulaceae; Betula

Comments and References:

image:Betula pendula Image by Percita from Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

GRIN (Sept 05, 2012) Name accessed on 5 September 2012 in: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

FNA - Betulaceae Furlow JJ. 1997. Betulaceae Gray. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.) Flora of North America North of Mexico, Vol. 3: Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae, New York and Oxford. On-line version.

Govaerts R & Frodin DG 1998 Govaerts R and Frodin DG. 1998. World Checklist and Bibliography of Fagales. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of China - Betulaceae Pei-chun Li & Alexei K. Skvortsov. Betulaceae Gray. In Wu, Z. Y. & P. H. Raven, eds. July 1999. Flora of China. Vol. 4 (Cycadaceae through Fagaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. Online version.

Ashburner K & McAllister HA 2013 Ashburner K & McAllister HA. 2013. The genus Betula, a taxonomic revision of birches (Gen Betula). Kew Publishing, 448 pp.

Committee on Stabilization 1975 Committee on Stabilization 1975. Report of the standing committee on stabilization of specific names. Taxon 24 (1): 171-200.

Euro+Med Plantbase Name verified on date of entry into database in: The Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. W. Greuter (Ed.) Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem.