Family:
Saururaceae F.Voigt

Houttuynia Thunb.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Himalaya to Temp. E. Asia and Indo-China.

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya

Introduced into:

Alabama, Austria, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, New York

Houttuynia Thunb. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 4: 149 (1783)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0