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Styphnolobium japonicum (L.)Schott

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HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Styphnolobium Endl.

Styphnolobium japonicum (L.)Schott [Preferred name]
    Sophora japonica L. {Synonym}
    Sophora korolkowii Dieck {Synonym}
    Sophora sinensis Forrest {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Chinese Scholar Tree [3030]; Japanese Pagoda Tree [1862, 1902, 3030]; Pagoda Tree [3157]; Sofora Yaponskaya [4685]; Sophore du Japon [3052]; Stifnolobium Yaponski [4705]; Umbrella Tree [3030]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Egypt (I) [8]; Kenya (I) [210]; South Africa (I) [543]; Zimbabwe (I) [8]
  Asia
Armenia (I) [4685]; Azerbaijan (I) [4685]; China (N) [1179, 1937, 3412]; Gruzia (I) Abkhazia [4297]; India (I) [1862, 1914, 3382]; Punjab [3382]; Iran (I) [1862, 1939]; Iraq (I) [1862]; Japan (N) [1930, 1937]; Kirgizstan (I) Osh [4621]; Korea (N) [1862]; Pakistan (I) [1938]; Russia in Asia (I) Dagestan [4357]; Tadzhikistan (I) [4427]; Taiwan (I) [2907]; Turkmenistan (I) [4681]; Uzbekistan (I) [4345]; Vietnam (I) [1937]
  Europe
Czechoslovakia (I) [754]; France (I) [754]; Italy (I) [454]; Moldova (I) [4177, 4418]; Romania (I) [754]; Russia in Europe (I) Astrakhan [4457]; Kalmykia [4060]; Rostov-Don [4724]; Volgograd [4558]; Ukraine (I) Donetsk [4694]; Kherson [4281, 4694]; Krym [4079]; Odessa [4678, 4694]; Zakarpatskaya [4257, 4694]; Zaporozhye [4110, 4694]
  Indian Ocean
Mauritius (I) [1915]
  North America
United States (I) [1847]
  Pacific Ocean
New Zealand(North) (I) [2265]
  South America
Argentina (I) [1140]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 754, 1862, 1937, 1938, 2078, 3412, 4681, 4685] ; Illustration [1937, 3412, 4455]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [4681] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS, 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3157], 2005-10 Agababian M - Ed.scr.French Names ; Habit: Tree [4681] ; Lifespan: Perennial [4681] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Europe) ESFEDS, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1991 (W Asia) Lock JM & Simpson K, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Adams BR, 1994 (Indo-China) Lock JM & Heald J, 1996 (Japan) Ohashi

  
USES:
  Chemical products [1937, 3030]; Domestic [1862, 4681, 4685]; Environmental [210, 1862, 1937, 4681]; Forage [3030]; Medicine [121, 1862, 3030]; Toxins [2015, 4685]; Wood [1862, 3030]

  
NOTES:
  Cultivated on Mauritius during the 1800's; no recent records. [1915]
  In Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae (1994) Sophora japonica includes the following varietas [3412]
  var. japonica, var. pubescens, var. violacea, var. vestita, var. praecox. [3412]
  Originally from Japan & China. Often cultivated. [1937]
  In "Flora URSS", "Flora Kavkaza" & some Middle Asian "Floras" it is treated [4685]
  as Sophora japonica [4685]
  Native to East Asia. [1915]

  
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