New York Metropolitan Flora

Genus: Ribes

Ribes odoratum
Ribes odoratum   Wendl. f. ex Bartling & Wendl. f.  -  Buffalo Currant

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Nomenclature

Ribes L., Sp. Pl. 1: 200. 1753. Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 94. 1754. Grossularia Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 243. 1763, nom. illeg. (Art. 53.1). Ribesium Medik., Philos. Bot. 1: 120. 1789, nom. illeg. (Art. 52.1). LECTOTYPE: Ribes rubrum L., designated by Coville & Britton (1908).

Grossularia Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4. 1754. LECTOTYPE: Grossularia hirsuta Mill. (=Ribes grossularia L.), designated by Coville & Britton (1908).

Coreosma Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 2. 4: 22. 1835. TYPE: Not designated.

Chrysobotrya Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 2. 4: 18. 1835. TYPE: Not designated.

Oxyacanthus Chevall., Fl. Gen. Env. Paris, ed. 2. 2: 662. 1836. TYPE: Not designated.

Limnobotrya Rydb., Fl. Rocky Mts. 396. 1918. TYPE: Not designated.

List of Ribes Species

Ribes americanum Ribes aureum Ribes cynosbati Ribes glandulosum Ribes hirtellum Ribes lacustre Ribes missouriense Ribes nigrum Ribes rotundifolium Ribes rubrum Ribes triste Ribes uva-crispa

References to Ribes

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  • Bates, J. C. 1933. Comparative anatomical research within the genus Ribes. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 21: 369-98.
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  • Berger, A. 1924. A taxonomic review of currants and gooseberries. New York Agric. Exp. Sta. Techn. Bull. 103: 3-118.
  • Bobrysheva, A. M.; Oknina, E. Z. 1961. Fall-winter development of flower buds of Ribes nigrum L. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Lenengrad) 46: 377-386. (In Russian)
  • Bunyard, E. A. 1917. The history and development of the red currant. J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 42: 260-70.
  • Bunyard, E. A. 1917. A revision of the red currants. Gard. Chron. 62: 205-6, 217, 232, 237.
  • Camp, W. H. 1947. Distribution patterns in modern plants and the problems of ancient dispersals. Ecol. Monogr. 17: 161-83.
  • Card, F. W. 1911. Bush-fruits: A horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits. ed. New York. , 537 pages. (The first volume in the Rural Science Series, ed. by L.H. Bailey.)
  • Chiche, J. et.al. 2003. Genome size, heterochromatin organisation, and ribosomal gene mapping in four species of Ribes. Canad. J. Bot. 81: 1049-1057.
  • Cooper, W. S. 1922. The ecological life history of certain species of Ribes and its application to the control of the white pine blister rust. Ecology 3: 7-16.
  • Cope, J. A. 1932. Northern white pine in the southern Appalachians. J. Forest. 30: 821-8. (Also Ribes)
  • Coville, F. V. 1935. Origin of the genus name Ribes. Science 82: 491-2.
  • Coville, F. V.; Britton, Nathaniel L. 1908. Grossulariaceae. N. Amer. Fl. 22: 193-225.
  • Darlington, C. D. 1929. A comparative study of the chromosome complement in Ribes. Genetica 11: 267-72.
  • Darlington, H. T.; Culver, L. B. 1939. Keys to the species of Ribes occurring in the Great Lakes region.
  • Fernald, M. L. 1905. Some lithological variations of Ribes. Rhodora 7: 153-6.
  • Fernald, M. L. 1911. The varieties of Ribes hirtellum. Rhodora 13: 73-6.
  • Fernald, M. L. 1907. Ribes vulgare and its indigenous representatives in eastern North Americad. Rhodora 9: 1-4.
  • Fivaz, A. E. 1931. Longevity and germination of seeds of Ribes, particularly R. rotundifolium, under laboratory and natural conditions.
  • Fulling, E. H. 1943. Plant life and the law of man. Barberry, currant, gooseberry and cedar control. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 9: 483-592.
  • Graenicher, S. 1907. Wisconsin flowers and their pollination II. Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc. 5: 84-95.
  • Gray, A. 1876. Our wild gooseberries. Amer. Naturalist 10: 270-5.
  • Hedrick, U. P. 1925. The small fruits of New York. 33rd Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Agr. Exper. Sta. Albany. , 614 pages.
  • Huang, P. H.; Ye, W. H. 1989. Pollen morphology of Ribes L. and its taxonomic significance. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 27(5): 378-85. (In Chinese: English summary)
  • Janczewski, E. 1907. Monographie des groseilliers, Ribes L. Mem. Soc. Phys. GenÞve 35: 199-517.
  • Janczewski, E. 1903. Essai d'une disposition naturelle de espÞces dans le genre Ribes L. Bull. Int. Acad. Sci. Cracovie, Cl. Sci. Math. 1903: 232-41.
  • Janczewski, E. 1906. Species generis Ribes L. II. & III. Bull. Int. Acad. Sci. Cracovie, Cl. Sci. Math. 1906: 1-13, 280-293.
  • Keep, E. 1962. Interspecific hybridization in Ribes. Genetica 33: 1-23.
  • Keep, E. 1971. Nucleolar suppression, its inheritance and association with taxonomy and sex in the genus Ribes. Heredity 26(3): 443-52.
  • Marshall, K. A.; Winkler, G. 1995. Ribes americana. ()
  • Messinger, W.; Hummer, K.; Liston, A. 1999. Ribes (Grossulariaceae) phylogeny as indicated by restriction-site polymorphisms of PCR-amplified chloroplast DNA. Pl. Syst. Evol. 217: 185-195.
  • Meurman, O. 1928. Cytological studies in the genus Ribes L.. Hereditas 11: 289-356.
  • Morgan, D. R.; Soltis, D. E. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships among members of Saxifragaceae sensu lato based on rbcL sequence data. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80: 631-660.
  • Pavlova, N. M. 1927. A survey of the literature on the genus Ribes. Trudy Prikl. Bot. 17: 463-513. (In Russian)
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  • Schoennagel, E. 1931. Chromosomenzahl unf Phylogenie der Saxifragaceen. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 64: 266-88.
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  • Senters, A. E.; Soltis, D. E. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships in Ribes (Grossulariaceae) inferred from ITS sequence data. Taxon 52: 51-66.
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  • Stern, W. L.; Sweitzer, E. M.; Phipps, R. E. 1971. Comparative anatomy and systematics of woody Saxifragaceae. Ribes. J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 63: 215-37.
  • Vaarama, A. 1948. Cryptic polyploidy and variation of chromosome number in Ribes nigrum. Nature 162: 782.
  • Vaarama, A. 1949. Spindle abnormalities and variation in chromosome number in Ribes nigrum. Hereditas 35: 136-162.
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