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  1. Family: Cornaceae Bercht. & J.Presl
    1. Genus: Cornus L.

      1. Cornus kousa Bürger ex Hance

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Sikkim, China to Temp. E. Asia.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan

    Introduced into:

    Hawaii, Masachusettes, New York, North Carolina

    Cornus kousa Bürger ex Hance appears in other Kew resources:

    First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13: 105 (1873)

    Accepted by

    • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016). Flora of North America North of Mexico 12: 1-603. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
    • Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
    • Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.) (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.
    • Chettri, A., Barik, S.K., Singh, B., Adhikari, D. & Lyngdoh, M.K. (2012). Cornus kousa F. Buerger ex Hance subsp. kousa (Cornaceae), a new record from India Taiwania 57: 77-81.
    • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

    Literature

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016). Flora of North America North of Mexico 12: 1-603. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
    • Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.) (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.
    • Chettri, A., Barik, S.K., Singh, B., Adhikari, D. & Lyngdoh, M.K. (2012). Cornus kousa F. Buerger ex Hance subsp. kousa (Cornaceae), a new record from India Taiwania 57: 77-81.
    • Zhengy, W. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2005). Flora of China 14: 1-581. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

    Sources

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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