Actaea sect. Cimicifuga

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ranunculales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Ranunculaceae
Subfamilia: Ranunculoideae
Tribus: Cimicifugeae
Genus: Actaea
Sectio: Actaea sect. Cimicifuga
Species: A. brachycarpa – A. cimicifuga – A. europaea – A. frigida – A. kashmiriana – A. muliensis – A. nanchuanensis – A. yunnanensis

Name

Actaea sect. Cimicifuga (Wernisch.) DC., protologue needed

• Type species: Actaea cimicifuga L., Sp. Pl.: 504 (1753)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Cimicifuga Wernisch., Gen. Pl.: 298, 321. (1763)
    • Type: Cimicifuga foetida L., Syst. Nat., ed. 12. 2: 659. (1767)

References

• Compton, J.A., Culham, A. & Jury, S.L. 1998. Reclassification of Actaea to include Cimicifuga and Souliea (Ranunculaceae): phylogeny inferred from morphology, nrDNA ITS, and cpDNA trnL-F sequence variation. Taxon 47(3): 593–634. DOI: 10.2307/1223580 JSTOR ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Luo, J.P., Wang, L., Ren, C., Yang, Q.E. & Yuan, Q. 2016. Taxonomic notes on Cimicifuga nanchuanensis (Ranunculaceae), a hitherto imperfectly known species from China. Nordic Journal of Botany 34(1): 87-101. DOI: 10.1111/njb.00937 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Luo, J.P., Yang, Q.E. & Yuan, Q. 2016. Actaea muliensis sp. nov.(Ranunculaceae), an unusual species with dark purple staminodes from western Sichuan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany 34(6): 728-734. DOI: 10.1111/njb.01079 Reference page.