Marah

Marah oregana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cucurbitales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Cucurbitales

Familia: Cucurbitaceae
Tribus: Sicyoeae
Genus: Marah
Species: M. fabacea – M. gilensis – M. guadalupensis – M. horrida – M. macrocarpa – M. micrantha – M. oregana – M. watsonii

Name

Marah Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 38 (1854).

• Type species: Marah muricata Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 38. (1854) (= Marah oregana Torr. & A.Gray) Howell Fl. N.W. Amer. 2: 239. (1898).).

Note: Kellogg (1854) assigned masculine gender to Marah and mentioned that the significance of the genus name may be found in "Exodus xv: 22–26". However in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 18. (1863), he treated Marah as feminine. [In Hebrew, Mar (masculine) and marah (feminine) = bitter (vide Avinoam Danin (HUJ)] (IPNI, 2014).

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Megarrhiza Torr. & A.Gray, Rep. Explor. Railroad Pacific 12: 61. (1860). However, some authorities consider Megarrhiza macrocarpa (Greene) Tidestr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48(9): 43. (1935) to be an accepted species, which would render this synonymy illegitimate, (The Plant List, 2014 & Tropicos, 2014).

References

Primary references

• Kellogg, A. 1854. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 1: 38.

Additional references

• Kellogg, A. 1864. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2: 18.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Marah. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 30. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Marah. Published online. Accessed: Dec 30 2019.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Marah in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 30. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2019. Marah. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 30 Dec 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Man Roots

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