Biology:Mitella
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Mitella is a genus of flowering plants known as miterworts or bishop's caps. Mitella species are native to temperate and arctic North America and Asia.
Description
Mitella includes perennials growing from a scaly rhizome, bearing wide heart- or spade-shaped leaves near their bases and flowers with five petals in a long raceme or spike.
Etymology
The genus name means "little mitre", from Latin mitra with the diminutive suffix -ella, since the flowers are said to resemble bishop's headdresses. In Classical Latin use, however, mitella means "female headdress" or "sling".[1] Latin mitra comes from Greek mítrā "girdle", "headband", or "turban".[2]
Species
Four species and natural hybrids are accepted.[3]
- Mitella diphylla L. - twoleaf miterwort
- Mitella × inamii Ohwi & Okuyama
- Mitella × intermedia Bruhin (M. diphylla × M. nuda)
- Mitella nuda L. - naked miterwort (syn. Mitella prostrata - creeping bishop's cap)
Formerly placed here
- Brewerimitella breweri (A.Gray) R.A.Folk & Y.Okuyama - Brewer's miterwort (as Mitella breweri A.Gray)
- Brewerimitella ovalis (Greene) R.A.Folk & Y.Okuyama - coastal miterwort (as Mitella ovalis Greene)
- Mitellastra caulescens (Nutt.) Howell - slightstemmed miterwort (as Mitella caulescens Nutt.)
- Ozomelis diversifolia (Greene) Rydb. - angleleaf miterwort (as Mitella diversifolia)
- Ozomelis stauropetala (Piper) Rydb. - smallflower miterwort (as Mitella stauropetala)
- Ozomelis trifida (Graham) Rydb. - threepart miterwort (as Mitella trifida Graham)
- Pectiantia pentandra (Hook.) Rydb. - fivestamen miterwort (as Mitella pentandra Hook.)
References
- ↑ mitella (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, September 2005, http://oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=mitella (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ μίτρα. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
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External links
Wikidata ☰ Q144225 entry
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