Triadenum, known as marsh St. John's worts,[2] is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae. The genus is characterized by opposite, blunt-tipped leaves and pink flowers with 9 stamens. They are distributed in North America and eastern Asia.
Triadenum | |
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Triadenum virginicum | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Hypericaceae |
Tribe: | Cratoxyleae |
Genus: | Triadenum Raf. |
Type species | |
T. fraseri (Spach) Gleason
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Acceptance of this genus is varied. Kew's Plants of the World Online[3] and the Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN)[4] treat it as a junior synonym of Hypericum and the Flora of North America[1] and Flora of China[5] treat it as separate. The situation arises from B. R. Ruhfel et al. (2011)'s genetic study describing Triadenum as subsumed under Hypericum and later genetic results disagreeing with this assessment.[6] Under Hypericum, the species are mostly treated as the section Hypericum sect. Elodea.[7]
Species
editTriadenum contains the following 6 species according to Flora of North America and Flora of China:[1][5]
- Triadenum breviflorum (Wall.)
- Triadenum fraseri (Spach) Gleason
- Triadenum japonicum (Thunb.)
- Triadenum tubulosum (Walter) Gleason
- Triadenum virginicum (L.) Raf.
- Triadenum walteri (J.F.Gmel.) Gleason
References
edit- ^ a b c "Triadenum in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Triadenum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ "Triadenum Raf". Plants of the World Online.
- ^ "Triadenum". VASCAN. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Triadenum in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org.
- ^ Robson, N. K. (2021). "Studies in the genus Hypericum L.(Hypericaceae) 9. Addenda, corrigenda, keys, lists and general discussion". Phytotaxa. 72: 1–111. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.72.1.1.
- ^ Robson, Norman K.B. (11 April 2016). "And then came molecular phylogenetics—Reactions to a monographic study of Hypericum (Hypericaceae)". Phytotaxa. 255 (3): 181. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.255.3.1.