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Frangula

Frangula · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online

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Frangula is a genus of about 56 species of flowering shrubs or small trees, commonly known as buckthorn, in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. The common name buckthorn is also used to describe species of the closely related genus Rhamnus in the same family, and also the superficially similar but unrelated sea-buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides in the Elaeagnaceae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRosales
  5. FamilyRhamnaceae
Native toAlabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Belarus
Observations recorded685,267

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
167
With media
100
Family
Rhamnaceae
Collections
IBUNAM, MICH, A, F, MO, RSA
Recorded in
Mexico, United States, Belize, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala, Panama

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Rhamnaceae
Image
Frangula-alnus.JPG
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taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Frangula
Commons category
Frangula
topic's main category
Category:Frangula
taxon common name
イソノキ属
taxonomic type
Frangula alnus
different from
Kruszyna
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