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Taxon: Phormium tenax J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.

Genus:

Phormium

Family:

Asphodelaceae

Subfamily:

Hemerocallidoideae

Nomen number:

28069

Place of publication:

Char. gen. pl. 48, t. 24. 1776

Link to protologue:

Comment:

for date of publication see New Zealand J. Bot. 51:252-263. 2013

Name Verified on:

07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 18-Feb-2014

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

harakeke (Source: Websters Dict) - English
New Zealand-flax (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
New Zealand-hemp (Source: Hortus 3) - English
korari (Source: Websters Dict) - New Zealand (Maori)
lino de Nueva Zelanda (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
lirio de espada (Source: F Mesoamer) - Spanish
nyzeeländskt lin (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Econ Pl Aust; F Mesoamer)
Materials: fiber

Distributional Range:

Native

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: AUS [New South Wales (Norfolk Island)]
NEW ZEALAND: NZL [Chatham Islands Territory, North Island, South Island, Stewart Island]

Cultivated

(also cult.)

References:

Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Allan, H. H. B. et al. Flora of New Zealand. (F NZeal)
Davidse, G. et al., eds. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
George, A. S., ed. 1994. Flora of Australia. (F Aust) 49:525.
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 (Econ Pl Aust)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Phormium tenax J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. :

AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
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.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2023. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://genbank.africarice.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=28069. Accessed 28 January 2023.