Diphylleia
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Diphylleia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Berberidaceae
Genus: Diphylleia
Michx.
|Diphylleia|
|Scientific classification|
|Kingdom:||Plantae|
|Clade:||Tracheophytes|
|Clade:||Angiosperms|
|Clade:||Eudicots|
|Order:||Ranunculales|
|Family:||Berberidaceae|
|Genus:||Diphylleia|
Michx.
Diphylleia is a group of small herbs in the family Berberidaceae described as a genus in 1803.[1][2] It is native to the eastern United States and eastern Asia.[3][4]
Diphylleia grayi, also known as the skeleton flower, has white petals that turn translucent with rain. When dry, they revert to white.[5]
- Diphylleia cymosa Michx. - southern Appalachians from SW Virginia to NW Georgia
- Diphylleia grayi F.Schmidt - Cape Sōya in northern Japan[7]
- Diphylleia sinensis H.L.Li - China (Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan)
References[edit]
- ^ Michaux, André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana 1: 203, plates 19–20. in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Diphylleia Michx.
- ^ Flora of North America, Vol. 3 Diphylleia Michaux
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 787 山荷叶属 shan he ye shu Diphylleia Michaux
- ^ J. Mater: Chem A, 2015, 3, 9379-9384
- ^ The Plant List, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Diphylleia Michx.
- ^ New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium