''Stenanthium'' is a North American
genus
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of
flowering plant
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s in the tribe
Melanthieae
Melanthieae is a tribe of flowering plants within the family Melanthiaceae. Molecular phylogenetics, Molecular phylogenetic studies in the 21st century have resulted in a large-scale reassignment of many of its species to different genera; in par ...
of the family
Melanthiaceae
Melanthiaceae, also called the bunchflower family, is a family (biology), family of flowering plant, flowering herbaceous perennial plants native to the Northern Hemisphere. Along with many other lilioid monocots, early authors considered member ...
.
Featherbells is a
common name
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for plants in this genus.
Taxonomy
Molecular phylogenetic studies in the 21st century have resulted in number of changes to placements within this tribe.
Three species were removed from the genus to ''
Anticlea
In Greek mythology, Anticlea or Anticlia (; Ancient Greek: ''Ἀντίκλεια'', literally "without fame") was a queen of Ithaca as the wife of King Laërtes.
Family
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'' and two or three (depending on whether ''S. leimanthoides'' is maintained as a separate species) added from ''
Zigadenus
''Zigadenus'' is a genus of flowering plants now containing only one species, ''Zigadenus glaberrimus'', the sandbog death camas, found in the southeastern United States from Mississippi to Virginia. Around 20 species were formerly included in th ...
''
sensu lato
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, the deathcamases.
(See also
Phylogeny of Melanthieae.) Members of ''Stenanthium'', as currently circumscribed, may also be distinguished from other deathcamases by having a slender cylindrical bulb and the lack of
sarcotesta
The sarcotesta is a fleshy seedcoat, a type of testa. Examples of seeds with a sarcotesta are pomegranate, ginkgo
''Ginkgo'' is a genus of non-flowering seed plants, assigned to the gymnosperms. The scientific name is also used as the Eng ...
on its brown seeds. They occur in the eastern and south-central United States.
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Species
Species include:
Different botanists and sources recognize different numbers of distinct species. The Flora of North America
The ''Flora of North America North of Mexico'' (usually referred to as ''FNA'') is a multivolume work describing the native plants and naturalized plants of North America, including the United States, Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and Greenla ...
and USDA
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recognize two: ''Stenanthium gramineum'' and ''Stenanthium occidentale''. Several sources recognize ''S. leimanthoides'' as a separate species.
/ref>World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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recognized three species in 2013, treating ''S. leimanthoides'' as a synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are a ...
of ''S. densum''.[ Plants of the World Online treats ''S. occidentale'' as a synonym of ''Anticlea occidentale''.][
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See also
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References
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Melanthiaceae
Flora of the Eastern United States
Flora of the Northwestern United States
Flora of Western Canada
Flora of California
Taxa named by Asa Gray
Taxa named by Carl Sigismund Kunth
Melanthiaceae genera