Paris verticillata

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Paris

Herbs perennial . Rhizome slender or thickened. Stem erect , simple . Leaves 4 to many, very rarely 3, in a terminal whorl, petiolate , lanceolate to ovate , with 3 main veins and anastomosing veinlets . Flowers bisexual , solitary, terminal, pedunculate . Tepals 3--8, in 2 whorls, free ; outer ones green, rarely white, ovate to lanceolate; inner ones linear or occasionally absent. Stamens 8--24 or more, 2--8 × as many as tepals; filaments narrow, flat; anthers basifixed , often with convex connective apically. Ovary subglobose, 1-loculed with parietal placentation or 4--10-loculed with axile placentation . Style short; stigma lobes 4--10. Fruit a berry or a berrylike capsule, indehiscent or loculicidal, several to many seeded.

About 24 species: Bhutan, China, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam; Europe; 22 species (12 endemic) in China.

The rhizomes of many species are used medicinally in China.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : M .Bieb. Publication : Fl. Taur.-Caucas. 3: 287 Dec 1819 or early 1820

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jul-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Paris

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. axialis (Paris) · P. bashanensis (Paris) · P. cronquistii (Paris) · P. daliensis (Paris) · P. delavayi (Paris) · P. fargesii (Paris) · P. fargesii var. petiolata (Paris) · P. hubeiensis (Paris) · P. luquanensis (Paris) · P. mairei (Paris) · P. marmorata (Paris) · P. polyphylla (Paris) · P. polyphylla var. alba (Paris) · P. polyphylla var. chinensis (Paris) · P. polyphylla var. stenophylla (Paris) · P. polyphylla var. yunnanensis (Paris) · P. quadrifolia (Herb Paris) · P. quadrifolius (Herb Paris) · P. thibetica (Paris) · P. vaniotii (Paris) · P. verticillata (Paris)

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Further Reading

• JI Yun-Heng, ZHOU Zhe-Kun & LI Heng. 2007. Four new synonyms in the genus Paris (Trilliaceae. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 45: 388-390.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 16, 2007:

• National Institute of Genetics, ROIS, Herbarium Specimens of Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Pref., Japan
• National Science Museum of Korea, National Science Museum of Korea Plant
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5881503
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-283865
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15885576
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:539731-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 539731-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 951818

Footnotes

1. Liang Song-jun, Victor G. Soukup "Paris". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 88. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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