Aletris

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Dioscoreales

Familia: Nartheciaceae
Genus: Aletris
Species: A. alpestris – A. aurea – A. bracteata – A. capitata – A. cinerascens – A. farinosa – A. foliata – A. foliolosa – A. foliosa – A. glabra – A. glandulifera – A. gracilis – A. laxiflora – A. lutea – A. megalantha – A. nana – A. obovata – A. pauciflora – A. pedicellata – A. scopulorum – A. simpliciflora – A. spicata – A. stenoloba – A. ×tottenii – A. yaanica
Name

Aletris L., Sp. Pl. 1: 319. (1753)

Type species: Aletris farinosa L., Sp. Pl. 1: 319 (1753)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Stachyopogon Klotzsch., Bot. Ergebn. Reise Waldemar 49. (1862)
Meta-aletris Masam., Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 28: 46 (1938)

References

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 319.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Aletris in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Sept. 12. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Aletris. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 12 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Aletris. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Sept. 12.

Aletris, the colicroot, colicweed, crow corn, or unicorn root, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Nartheciaceae, native to North America and to eastern and southeastern Asia, especially China.[2][3][4] It was used as a component in Lydia Pinkham's original Vegetable Compound.
Species

Aletris species include:[2][3][5]

Aletris alpestris Diels. - Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
Aletris aurea Walter - from Texas and Oklahoma to Maryland
Aletris bracteata Northr. - Florida, Bahamas
Aletris capitata F.T.Wang & Tang - Sichuan
Aletris cinerascens F.T.Wang & Tang - Yunnan, Guangxi
Aletris farinosa L. - Ontario and much of eastern United States
Aletris foliata (Maxim.) Makino & Nemoto - Korea, Japan
Aletris foliolosa Stapf - Sumatra, Sabah, Mindoro
Aletris foliosa (Maxim.) Bureau & Franch. - Japan
Aletris glabra Bureau & Franch. - Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
Aletris glandulifera Bureau & Franch. - Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan
Aletris gracilis Rendle - Nepal, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Tibet, Yunnan
Aletris laxiflora Bureau & Franch. - Tibet, Sichuan, Guizhou
Aletris lutea Small - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
Aletris megalantha F.T.Wang & Tang - Yunnan
Aletris nana S.C.Chen - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal
Aletris obovata Nash - - Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina
Aletris pauciflora (Klotzsch) Hand.-Mazz - Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, northern India
Aletris pedicellata F.T.Wang & Tang - Sichuan
Aletris scopulorum Dunn - Shikoku, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
Aletris simpliciflora R.Li & Shu D.Zhang - Tibet
Aletris spicata (Thunb.) Franch. - Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, much of China
Aletris stenoloba Franch. - Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
Aletris × tottenii E.T.Browne - Georgia (hybrid, A. lutea × A. obovata)
Aletris yaanica G.H.Yang - Sichuan

References

Curtis's Botanical Magazine v. 34 (1811)
"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
"Aletris in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
"Aletris in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-24.

Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps

Taxon identifiers

Wikidata: Q953802 Wikispecies: Aletris APNI: 81239 E