Veratrum

Veratrum maackii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Liliales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Liliales

Familia: Melanthiaceae
Tribus: Melanthieae
Genus: Veratrum
Sectiones: V. sect. Fuscoveratrum – V. sect. Veratrum
Species: V. albiflorum – V. album – V. anticleoides – V. californicum – V. dahuricum – V. dolichopetalum – V. fimbriatum – V. formosanum – V. grandiflorum – V. insolitum – V. lobelianum – V. longebracteatum – V. maackii – V. maximum – V. mengtzeanum – V. micranthum – V. nigrum – V. oblongum – V. oxysepalum – V. schindleri – V. shanense – V. stamineum – V. taliense – V. versicolor – V. viride
Nothospecies: V. × tonussii 

Name

Veratrum L., Sp. Pl.: 1044 (1753), nom. cons.

• Type species: Veratrum album L.

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Helleborus Gueldenst., Reis. Russland 2: 196 (1791), nom. illeg. non Helleborus L., Sp. Pl. 1: 557. 1753.
  • Leimanthium Willd., Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 2: 24 (1808).
  • Anepsa Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2: 31 (1837).
  • Evonyxis Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2: 29 (1837).
  • Acelidanthus Trautv. & C.A.Mey. in A.T.von Middendorff, Reise Sibir. 1(2; 3): 94 (1856).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe Regional: Northern Europe Finland, Norway. Regional: Middle Europe Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland. Regional: Southwestern Europe France, Portugal, Spain. Regional: Southeastern Europe Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia. Regional: Eastern Europe Belarus, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine. Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Siberia Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutskiya. Regional: Russian Far East Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Islands, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin. Regional: Middle Asia Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan. Regional: Caucasus North Caucasus, Transcaucasus. Regional: Western Asia Turkey. Regional: China China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central, China Southeast, Xinjiang. Regional: Mongolia Mongolia. Regional: Eastern Asia Japan, Korea, Taiwan. Continental: Asia-Tropical Regional: Indo-China Myanmar, Thailand. Continental: Northern America Regional: Subarctic America Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon. Regional: Western Canada Alberta, British Columbia. Regional: Eastern Canada Labrador, New Brunswick, Québec. Regional: Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming. Regional: Northeastern U.S.A. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia. Regional: Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, California, Nevada. Regional: South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico. Regional: Southeastern U.S.A. Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. Regional: Mexico Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus II: 1044. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kim, S.C., Kim, J.S., Chase, M.W., Fay, M.F. & Kim, J.H. 2016. Molecular phylogenetic relationships of Melanthiaceae (Liliales) based on plastid DNA sequences. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(4): 567-584. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12405 Reference page. 
• Zomlefer, W.B., Whitten, W.M., Williams, N.H., Judd, W.S. 2003. An Overview of Veratrum s.l. (Liliales: Melanthiaceae) and an Infrageneric Phylogeny Based on ITS Sequence Data. Systematic Botany 28(2): 250–269.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Veratrum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Nov. 18. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Veratrum. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 18 2021.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Veratrum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.

Vernacular names

azərbaycanca: Asırqal
башҡортса: Аҡһырғаҡ
čeština: kýchavice
чӑвашла: Кикен
dansk: Foldblad
Deutsch: Germer
English: False Hellebore
suomi: Pärskäjuuret
français: Vératre
hornjoserbsce: Kichawa
日本語: シュロソウ属
қазақша: Тамырдәрі
lietuvių: Čemerys
norsk nynorsk: Nyserotslekta
norsk: Nyserotslekta/nyserotslekten
ирон: Кæндыс
polski: Ciemiężyca
русский: Чемерица
саха тыла: Өлөтөк
slovenčina: kýchavica
српски / srpski: Чемерика
svenska: Nysrotssläktet
中文: 藜芦属

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