Taxon: Malus domestica Borkh.

Genus:

Malus

Section:

Malus

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Spiraeoideae

Tribe:

Pyreae

Subtribe:

Pyrinae

Nomen number:

104681

Place of publication:

Theor. prakt. Handb. Forstbot. 2:1272. 1803, nom. cons. prop.

Comments:

• "fide Telopea 9:427. 2001 an illegitimate, superfluous name (Vienna ICBN Art. 52) for M. communis Desf. (1798), i.e. based on the same type (that of Pyrus malus L.)\\\
• proposed for conservation (nom. cons. prop. against the homotypic and heterotypic synonyms (Vienna ICBN Art. 14) M. communis, M. pumila, and three other names"

Name Verified on:

21-Jun-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 07-Jul-2016

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

2599 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Synonyms:

(≡) Malus malus (L.) Britton, nom. inval.
(=) Malus pumila auct.
(≡) Malus pumila var. domestica (Borkh.) C. K. Schneid.
(=) Malus sylvestris auct.
(≡) Malus sylvestris var. domestica (Borkh.) Mansf.
(≡) Pyrus malus L.

Check other web resources for Malus domestica Borkh. :

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.