Bistorta (L.) Scop.
Distribution
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Laos, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Newfoundland, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nunavut, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon
Introduced into:
Massachusetts, Nova Scotia
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Colubrina Montandon in F.Friche-Joset, Syn. Fl. Jura: 268 (1856), nom. illeg.
Accepted Species
- Bistorta abukumensis Yonek., Iketsu & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta affinis (D.Don) Greene
- Bistorta albiflora Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta alopecuroides (Turcz. ex Kom.) Nakai
- Bistorta amplexicaulis (D.Don) Greene
- Bistorta attenuata Kom.
- Bistorta attenuatifolia Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta bistortoides (Pursh) Small
- Bistorta burmanica Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta carnea (K.Koch) Kom.
- Bistorta coriacea (Sam.) Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta diopetes H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta elliptica (Willd. ex Spreng.) V.V.Petrovsky, D.F.Murray & Elven
- Bistorta emodi (Meisn.) H.Hara
- Bistorta griersonii Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta griffithii (Hook.f.) Grierson
- Bistorta hayachinensis (Makino) H.Gross
- Bistorta honanensis (H.W.Kung) Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta incana (Nakai) Nakai
- Bistorta jaljalensis H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta krascheninnikovii N.A.Ivanova
- Bistorta longispicata Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta ludlowii Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta macrophylla (D.Don) Soják
- Bistorta manshuriensis (Petrov ex Kom.) Kom.
- Bistorta milletii H.Lév.
- Bistorta milletioides H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta ochotensis Kom.
- Bistorta officinalis Delarbre
- Bistorta perpusilla (Hook.f.) Greene
- Bistorta plumosa (Small) Greene
- Bistorta purpureonervosa (A.J.Li) Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta × rhaetica (Brügger) Dostál
- Bistorta rubra Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta sherei H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta sinomontana (Sam.) Miyam.
- Bistorta subscaposa (Diels) Petrov
- Bistorta suffulta (Maxim.) Greene ex H.Gross
- Bistorta tenuicaulis (Bisset & S.Moore) Nakai
- Bistorta tenuifolia (H.W.Kung) Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta tubistipulis Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta vacciniifolia (Wall. ex Meisn.) Greene
- Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre
- Bistorta yunnanensis H.Gross
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Schuster, T.M., Reveal, J.L., Bayly, M.J. & Kron, K.A. (2015). An updated molecular phylogeny of Polygonoideae (Polygonaceae): relationships of Oxygonum, Pteroxygonum, and Rumex, and a new circumscription of Koenigia. Taxon 64: 1188-1208.
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Persicaria.]
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0