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  1. Family: Saxifragaceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Astilbe Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

      1. Astilbe japonica (C.Morren & Decne.) A.Gray

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Japan (SW. Honshu, Kyushu).

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Japan

    Introduced into:

    New York

    Astilbe japonica (C.Morren & Decne.) A.Gray appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Bunge [s.n.], Japan K000396202 Unknown type material
    s.coll. [s.n.], Japan K000396203 Unknown type material

    First published in Amer. J. Sci. Arts 42: 39 (1841)

    Accepted by

    • Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542.
    • Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Japan IIb: 1-550. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
    • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.

    Literature

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542.

    Sources

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. 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 2019. 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