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Published In: Genera Plantarum 231. 1789. (4 Aug 1789) (Gen. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Contributor Text: HARALD RIEDL and YASIN J. NASIR
Contributor Institution: Naturhistorisches Museum, Botanische Abteilung, Wien, Austria.

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National Herbarium, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad.
General/Distribution: The number of genera varies greatly from author to author (35-70) according to wider or narrower generic concepts, as convincing criteria are often lacking. It may be about 50. Approximately 2000 species are present, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, but also in southern temperate regions, in the tropics wh ere they are usually confined to higher altitudes. With a few exceptions found in mesic to humid habitats. Represented in Pakistan by 22 genera and c. 114 species, of which several genera l ike Nigella, Anemone, Aquilegia include plants of ornamental value, others are toxic and used for medicinal purposes. Some of the annual species have become agricultural weeds, and their present day distribution is strongly influenced by man’s activities.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Morphologically the family displays an unusually wide diversity of features in practically every part. Systematically it is fairly close to Magnoliaceae. Number of floral parts are not constant and are rather high in several members but reduced to 1-2 within the family. Functional diversity however, seems to correspond to morphological diversity. Nearly all kinds of seed dispersal known among angiosperms is found, but dispersal by wind, water and by external attachment to animals is most common.

The genera Aconitum, Anemone and Delphinium revised by Yasin J. Nasir

Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Director/Curators of the following herbaria for the loan of plant specimens: E, K, KUH, PPFI-B, W. The financial assistance received from the U.S. Department of Agriculture under PL-480 is gratefully acknowledged.


 

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Annual or perennial herbs, rarely woody climbers. Leaves undivided or more or less deeply lobed, pinnatisect to pinnatipartite, rarely pedatisect, alternate, rarely opposite. Uppermost leaves sometimes united into an involucre that closely resembles a calyx. Flowers single or united to various types of racemose inflorescences, usually radially symmetric, zygomorphic in Aconitum, Delphinium and Consolida, with a single perigonium either formed by petaloid sepals or true petals corresponding morphologically to nectaries or composed of calyx and corolla. Sepals and petals (nectaries) (2-)3-5(-8), rarely more or 0, sometimes provided with a spur. Intermediates between uppermost leaves and sepals as well as between stamens and nectaries or petals frequently present. Stamens usually numerous, reduced in number to 2, in several whorls or rarely in a single whorl. Carpels 1 to numerous, in the latter case arranged spirally on a convex receptacle. Fruit a follicle, often dry, 2 to many-seeded, with marginal ovules or one-seeded nutlets with a single basal ovule (achenes), very rarely baccate (Aclaea).
 

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1.Flowers zygomorphic
2.Flowers without a spur. Upper sepal hood-l ike
Aconitum
2.Upper sepal with a distinct spur
3.Perennials. Follicles 2-5
Delphinium
3.Annuals. Follicles single
Consolida
1.Flowers regular (actinomorphic)
4.Sepals and petals 5, each with a distinct spur, petaloid
Aquilegia
4.Sepals and petals without spur
5.Fruit a berry. Flowers small, stamens longer than corolla. Leaves compound
Actaea
5.Fruit not a berry, dry many-seeded follicles or one-seeded nutlets
6.Fruit 2-many seeded follicles
7.Stamens longer than corolla. Numerous small flowers arranged in long, simple or branched racemes
Cimicifuga
7.Stamens shorter than corolla. Flowers single or arranged in a different kind of inflorescence
8.Leaves undivided, roundish, dentate to crenate
Caltha
8.Leaves divided in various ways
9.Sepals blue to whitish with blue veins, petaloid. Leaf segments filiform
Nigella
9.Sepals usually white or yellow, rarely lilac. Leaf segments wider
10.Sepals petaloid yellow to orange, in several circles, conchate
Trollius
10.Sepals petaloid or lacking, white or rarely lilac
11.Stem without leaves. Growth-habit distinctly caespitose
Paraquilegia
11.Stem with few leaves. Growth-habit not caespitose
Isopyrum
6.Fruit 1-seeded achene
12.Woody or herbaceous climbers, rarely smaller, erect plants with large, single flowers. Flowers with a simple perianth, strictly tetramerous. Single to a few or numerous flowers in a panicle-l ike inflorescence
Clematis
12.Neither woody nor climbers. Flowers tetramerous only in Thalictrum
13.Flowers with a simple perianth
14.Achenes with a long plumose style
Pulsatilla
14.Style short, not plumose
15.Stem with several ± equally distributed leaves. Inflorescence a simple raceme or a branched panicle
Thalictrum
15.Stem with only one circle of free or connate leaves forming a kind of involucres. Flowers 1-2 or in an umbel-l ike inflorescence
Anemone
13.Perianth double, composed of calyx and corolla
16.Floating aquatic herbs, the submerged leaves with filiform leaf-segments
Batrachium
16.Non floating aquatic herbs but sometimes with flaccid, creeping stems on wet ground
17.Calyx persistent in the mature fruit
Oxygraphis
17.Calyx deciduous after flowering
18.Small annuals. Petals yellowish, shorter or slightly longer than the calyx. Stamens 5-15
Ceratocephala
18.Annual or perennials. Petals usually manifestly longer than calyx. Stamens more than 15
19.Carpels without prominent veins. Flowers yellow
Ranunculus
19.Carpels rugose with prominent veins at least when young (regular and without veins, but with a transverse, prominent, lobed ring at maturity in some species of Adonis). Flowers yellow, red or shade of pink
20.Stems rooting at the nodes, flaccid. Flowers on short leafless stalks, yellow, small. Veins of carpels ± parallel, scarcely branched. Petals 5
Halerpestes
20.Stems erect, not flaccid or rooting at the nodes. Flowers terminal. Veins of carpels reticulate. Petals often more than 5
21.Flowers large, white or pink. Leaf-segments ovate
Callianthemum
21.Flowers yellow or red. Leaf-segments narrowly linear
Adonis
 
 
 
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