Centaurium
| Centaurium | |
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| Centaurium erythraea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Gentianaceae |
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| Genus: | Centaurium Hill, 1756 |
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Erythraea Borkh. | |
Centaurium (centaury) is a genus of 20 species in the gentian family (Gentianaceae), tribe , subtribe . The genus was named after the centaur Chiron, famed in Greek mythology for his skill in medicinal herbs. It is distributed across Europe and into Asia.
Until 2004, Centaurium was given a much wider circumscription, comprising about 50 species ranging across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Australasia and the Pacific. However this circumscription was polyphyletic, so in 2004 the genus was split in four, being Centaurium sensu stricto, Zeltnera, Gyrandra and Schenkia.[1]
Species[]
- (Duf.) F. Q. & Rothm.
- (Sennen) Sennen
- Centaurium calycosum (Buckley) Fernald
- Broome
- (Roxb.) Rolla Rao & Hemadri
- (Brot.) Samp.
- Centaurium davyi (Jeps.) Abrams
- Centaurium erythraea Rafn
- Centaurium exaltatum (Griseb.) W. Wight ex Piper
- Zeltner
- (Boiss. & Reut.) Ronniger
- Centaurium littorale (D. Turner) Gilmour
- Zeltner
- (Hoffmgg. & Link) Ronniger
- Maire
- (L.) Fritch
- Centaurium pulchellum (Sw.) Druce
- (L.)
- Centaurium scilloides (L. fil.) Samp.
- A. Carlström
- Lainz
- (Griseb.) Ronniger
- Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmgg. & Link) Fritsch
- (Velen.) Ronnige
See also[]
- Zeltnera muehlenbergii - formerly C. muehlenbergii
- Zeltnera namophila - formerly C. namophila
- Zeltnera venusta - formerly C. venustum
References[]
- ^ Mansion, Guilhem (2004). "A new classification of the polyphyletic genus Centaurium Hill (Chironiinae, Gentianaceae): description of the New World endemic Zeltnera, and reinstatement of Gyrandra Griseb. and Schenkia Griseb". Taxon. 53 (3): 719–740. doi:10.2307/4135447. JSTOR 4135447. S2CID 85265968.
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Categories:
- Centaurium
- Gentianaceae genera
- Flora of Europe