Apiaceae
Niphogeton

Niphogeton ternatus (Willd. ex Schult.) Mathias & Constance

First published in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 23: 409 (1951)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Colombia to NW. Venezuela. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the montane tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders and as a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Kew Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) https://www.kew.org/science/data-and-resources/tools-and-services/medicinal-plant-names-services in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Camp, W.H. [E-4757] Ecuador K002760299 Yes
Holm-Nielsen, L. [s.n.] Ecuador K002760302 Yes
Ollgaard, B.; Brandbyge, J.; Roth, S.; Sperling, C. [s.n.] Ecuador K002760306 Yes
Holm-Nielsen, L.; Jaramillo, J. [s.n.] Ecuador K002760303 Yes
André, É. [3258] Colombia K002760312 Yes
Grubb, P.J.; Curry, B.A.B.; Fernández Pérez, A. [92] Colombia K002760319 Yes
Cazalet, P.C.D.; Pennington, T.D. [5367] Ecuador K002760307 Yes
André, É. [3258] Colombia K002760309 Yes
s.coll. [[378]] Colombia K002760321 Yes
Pennell, F. [6924] Colombia K002760310 Yes
Killip, E.P.; Garcia, H.; Gutierrez V, G. [38009] Colombia K002760314 Yes
Laegaard, S. [s.n.] Ecuador K002760298 Yes
Pennell, F. [4308] Colombia K002760308 Yes
Grubb, P.J.; Curry, B.A.B.; Fernández Pérez, A. [758] Colombia K002760318 Yes
Grauada, N. [781] Colombia K002760315 Yes
Schultes, R.E.; Villarreal, M.V. [7814] Colombia K002760317 Yes
Holm-Nielsen, L.; Jaramillo, J. [s.n.] Ecuador K002760304 Yes
Holm-Nielsen, L.; Ollgaard, B. [24345] Ecuador K002760305 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Colombia K002760311 Yes
[illegible] [843] Ecuador K002760300 Yes
Lehmannianae, F.C. [s.n.] Colombia K002760313 Yes
s.coll. [[379]] Colombia K002760320 Yes
Edwards, P.J. [[68]] Ecuador K002760301 Yes
Jan 1, 1949 Goudot [s.n.] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K000534968 Type Yes
Linden, I. [1295] Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760324 Yes
Holton, I.F. [643] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760331 Yes
Roldan, F.J.; Marulanda, O.; Escobar, M. [351] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760334 Yes
Hawkes, J.G.; García-Barriga, H. [55] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760332 Yes
s.coll. [249] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760329 Yes
Cuatrecasas, J. [2251] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760322 Yes
Dawe, M.T. [s.n.] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760327 Yes
Schultes, R.E. [7217] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760333 Yes
André, É. [1298] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760330 Yes
{Dawe} [370] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760328 Yes
Sprague, T.A. [202] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760326 Yes
Triana, J. [s.n.] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760325 Yes
André, É. [1298] Colombia Niphogeton ternatus var. orientalis K002760323 Yes
{Cruckshanks} [148] Chile Apium ranunculifolium K002753455 No
Chile Apium ranunculifolium K000529963 Unknown Type Material Yes
{Philippi} [s.n.] Chile Apium ranunculifolium K002753461 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Chile Apium ranunculifolium K002753460 No
{Cuming; Gillies} [505] Chile Apium ranunculifolium K002753459 No
{Middleton} [s.n.] Chile Apium ranunculifolium K002753457 No
Cuming, H. [515] Chile Apium ranunculifolium K002753458 No
Moseley [s.n.] Chile Apium ranunculifolium K002753456 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/