Anticlea (plant)

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Anticlea

Flowers of Anticlea elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Order:  | Liliales
Family:  | Melanthiaceae
Tribe:  | Melanthieae
Genus:  | Anticlea
Kunth
Synonyms[1]

* Monadenus Salisb.
* Stenanthella Rydb.

Anticlea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melanthiaceae, tribe Melanthieae. Molecular phylogenetic studies in the 21st century have resulted in number of changes to placements within this tribe. Anticlea was long submerged into the genus Zigadenus; however its separate position has been confirmed. Some species were also moved from Stenanthium into Anticlea.[2] (See also Phylogeny of Melanthieae.) Members of Anticlea may also be distinguished from other members of the former genus Zigadenus, the deathcamases, by the presence of narrow tepals with a single, conspicuous, bilobed gland. It also has a wider distribution, occurring in Asia and much of North and Central America, ranging south to Guatemala.[1][3][4][5][6]

Species[1][7]

* Anticlea elegans (syn. Zigadenus elegans) - Elegant camas, alkali grass, mountain deathcamas - W + N United States, Alaska, Canada, Chihuahua
* Anticlea frigida (syn. Stenanthium frigidum) - Veracruz
* Anticlea hintoniorum (syn. Zigadenus hintoniorum) - Hinton's deathcamas - Coahuila, Nuevo León, Oaxaca[8]
* Anticlea mogollonensis (syn. Zigadenus mogollonensis) - Mogollon deathcamas - New Mexico
* Anticlea neglecta (syn. Zigadenus neglectus) - Guanajuato, Querétaro[9]
* Anticlea occidentalis (syn. Stenanthium occidentale) - Western featherbells or Bronze-Bells - BC, Alb, Sask, Washington (state) , OR, ID, MT, N California
* Anticlea sachalinensis (syn. Stenanthium sachalinense) - Khabarovsk, Sakhalin
* Anticlea sibirica (syn. Zigadenus sibiricus) - much of Russian Federation, China, Mongolia, Korea, Rebun, Rishiri
* Anticlea vaginata (syn. Zigadenus vaginatus) - Sheathed deathcamas - Utah, Colorado, Arizona
* Anticlea virescens (syn. Zigadenus virescens) - Green deathcamas - Colorado + Arizona south to Oaxaca
* Anticlea volcanica (syn. Zigadenus volcanicus) - Lava deathcamas - C + S Mexico, Guatemala

The genus name of Anticlea is in honour of Anticlea of Ithaca from Greek mythology, Anticlea or Anticlia was a queen of Ithaca as the wife of King Laërtes.[10]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23997-1.
2. ↑ Zomlefer, WB; WS Judd (2002). "Resurrection of Segregates of the Polyphyletic Genus Zigadenus s.l. (Liliales: Melanthiaceae) and Resulting New Combinations". Novon 12 (2): 299–308. doi:10.2307/3392971. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/36508.
3. ↑ Flora of North America, Zigadenus Michaux
4. ↑ Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 85 棋盘花属 qi pan hua shu Zigadenus Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 213. 1803.
5. ↑ Zomlefer, WB; NH Williams; WM Whitten; WS Judd (2001). "Generic circumscriptions and relationships in the tribe Melanthieae (Liliales, Melanthiaceae), with emphasis on Zigadenus: Evidence from ITS and TRNL-F sequence data". American Journal of Botany (Botanical Society of America) 88 (9): 1657–1669. doi:10.2307/3558411. PMID 21669700.
6. ↑ Zomlefer, WB; WS Judd (2002). "Resurrection of Segregates of the Polyphyletic Genus Zigadenus s.l. (Liliales: Melanthiaceae) and Resulting New Combinations". Novon (Missouri Botanical Garden Press) 12 (2): 299–308. doi:10.2307/3392971. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/36508.
7. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
8. ↑ Tropicos, specimen listing for Zigadenus hintoniorum
9. ↑ Tropicos, Zigadenus neglectus Espejo, López-Ferr. & Ceja Search in The Plant List
10. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

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