Mercurialis (plant)

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Mercuries
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Mercurialis perennis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subtribe:
Genus: Mercurialis
L.
Type species
Mercurialis perennis[1][2]
L.
Synonyms[3]
  • Cynocrambe Hill
  • Discoplis Raf.
  • Synema

Mercurialis /mərˌkjʊəriˈælɪs/ is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, the spurges, known commonly as the mercuries. These are slender herbs (forbs), rhizomatious perennials and woody perennials, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia.[3][4][5]

Species[3]
  1. Mercurialis annua L. – most of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East (from Turkey to Iran and Qatar), and islands of the eastern Atlantic (Canary Islands, Azores, Madeira, etc.)
  2. Obbard & S.A.Harris – Canary Islands
  3. Coss. & Kralik – Corsica, Sardinia
  4. Lam. – Spain, Portugal, Morocco
  5. Hanry – Spain, France, Morocco
  6. Siebold & Zucc. – China, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, Thailand, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal
  7. Lam. – Spain, Portugal, France (M. annua × M. tomentosa)
  8. Sternb. & Hoppe – C + E Europe and SW Asia from Germany + Italy to Russia + Syria
  9. Graebn. – C + E Europe from Germany to Crimea (M. ovata × M. perennis)
  10. Mercurialis perennis L. – most of Europe plus Algeria, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran
  11. Rouy – Spain, Morocco
  12. L. – Spain, Portugal, France, Balearic Islands
formerly included[3]

transferred to other genera (Acalypha Adenocline Claoxylon Leidesia Micrococca Seidelia Speranskia )

  1. M. abyssinica –
  2. M. acanthocarpa –
  3. M. alternifolia Lam. 1797 not Hochst. ex Baill. 1858 –
  4. M. alternifolia Hochst. ex Baill. 1858 not Lam. 1797 –
  5. M. androgyna – Leidesia procumbens
  6. M. angustifolia –
  7. M. australis – Claoxylon australe
  8. M. bupleuroides – var. bupleuroides
  9. M. caffra –
  10. M. capensis – Leidesia procumbens
  11. M. cucullata –
  12. M. dregeana –
  13. M. indica –
  14. M. pauciflora –
  15. M. procumbens – Leidesia procumbens
  16. M. pumila –
  17. M. serrata – var. ovalifolia
  18. M. subcordata –
  19. M. tenella – var. tenella
  20. M. tenerifolia –
  21. M. triandra –
  22. M. tricocca Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Krauss 1845 not E.Mey. ex Sond. 1850 – Leidesia procumbens
  23. M. tricocca E.Mey. ex Sond. 1850 not Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Krauss 1845 –
  24. M. violifolia –
  25. M. Mercurialis zeyheri – var. transiens


Weed or landscape plant?

References[]

  1. ^ lectotype designated by J. K. Small in N. L. Britton et A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S. ed. 2. 2: 460 (1913).
  2. ^ Tropicos, genus Mercurialis
  3. ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Mercurialis includes photos and European distribution maps
  5. ^ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 247 山靛属 shan dian shu Mercurialis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1035. 1753.

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