Veratrum

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, 2^nd 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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