Anemonastrum

{{short description|Genus of Ranunculaceae plants}}

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|image = Anemonastrum narcissiflorum sl1.jpg

|image_caption = Anemonastrum narcissiflorum

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|taxon = Anemonastrum

|authority = Holub{{r|Holub1973}}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms =

  • Anemonidium (Spach) Holub
  • Homalocarpus Schur
  • Jurtsevia Á.Löve & D.Löve

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Anemonastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. Plants of the genus are native to the temperate and subarctic regions of North America, Greenland, Europe, Asia, South America, and New Zealand.{{r|30039393-2}} The generic name Anemonastrum means "somewhat like anemone",{{r|Gledhill2008}} a reference to the Anemone genus of closely related plants. It chiefly differs from Anemone in having a base chromosome number of x=7, as opposed to x=8.{{r|Mosyakin2016}}

Species

{{As of|August 2020}}, Kew's Plants of the World Online accepts 38 species in the genus Anemonastrum:{{r|30039393-2}}

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References

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Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 8: 158 (1973)

{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30039393-2 |title=Anemonastrum Holub |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=8 August 2020 }}

{{cite journal |last=Mosyakin |first=Sergei L. |date=12 December 2016 |title=Nomenclatural notes on North American taxa of Anemonastrum and Pulsatilla (Ranunculaceae), with comments on the circumscription of Anemone and related genera |url=http://www.phytoneuron.net/2016Phytoneuron/79PhytoN-Anemonastrum.pdf |journal=Phytoneuron |volume=79 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |issn=2153-733X |access-date=8 August 2020 }}

{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |title=The Names of Plants |first=David |last=Gledhill |edition=4th |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-86645-3 |year=2008 |page=60}}

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Category:Ranunculaceae genera