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Prunus virginiana L. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Prunus (family Rosaceae).

The record derives from RJP (data supplied on 2011-10-18 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 72) with original publication details: Species plantarum, edition 1 Species plantarum, edition 1; 1753 473 1753.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30003056-2.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Cerasus virginica Michx. ex hort.	Synonym		RJP	2011-10-18
Padus rubra Mill.	Synonym		RJP	2011-10-18
Padus virginiana (L.) Mill.	Synonym		RJP	2011-10-18
Padus virginiana (L.) M.Roem.	Synonym		RJP	2011-10-18
Prunus serotina Poir.	Synonym		RJP	2011-10-18
Prunus virginiana var. virginiana	Synonym		RJP	2011-10-18
Prunus virginica Steud. [Spelling variant]	Synonym		RJP	2011-10-18

Infraspecific taxa:

This species contains the following infraspecific taxa*.

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Synonyms
Prunus virginiana var. demissa (Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray) Torr.	Accepted		RJP	2011-10-18	4
Prunus virginiana var. melanocarpa (A.Nelson) Sarg.	Accepted		RJP	2011-10-18	3

The Plant List does not attempt to include all infraspecific taxa.

Earlier versions

This name record (from RJP) was not included in version 1 of The Plant List. It is possible the same name was included from a different data source, to check this you can search for Prunus virginiana in version 1 of The Plant List.