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Gentianaceae

Gentiana

Gentiana acaulis L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 228 (1753)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is NE. Spain to Alps, Central Italy to Carpathians. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution
Synonyms
Accepted Infraspecifics
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Other data

Native to:

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

Great Britain

Homotypic Synonyms

Ciminalis acaulis (L.) Borkh. in Arch. Bot. (Leipzig) 1(1): 26 (1796)
Gentiana grandiflora Lam. in Fl. Franç. 2: 296 (1779), nom. illeg.
Gentianusa acaulis (L.) Pohl in Tent. Fl. Bohem. 1: 252 (1809)
Lexipyretum acaule (L.) Dulac in Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 451 (1867)
Pneumonanthe acaulis (L.) F.W.Schmidt in Arch. Bot. (Leipzig) 1(1): 10 (1796)
Pneumonanthe grandiflora Gray in Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 335 (1821 publ. 1822), nom. superfl.
Thylacitis grandiflora Delarbre in Fl. Auvergne, ed. 2: 26 (1800), nom. superfl.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS G: 1-40325.

Kew Species Profiles

Beentje, H. (2010). The Kew Plant Glossary. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Curtis, W. (1788). Gentiana acaulis. Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 2: t. 52
Leung, A.Y. (1996). Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics. (2nd ed.) J Wiley, New York.
The Plant List (2010). Gentiana acaulis.
Wilford, R. (2010). Alpines from Mountain to Garden. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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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 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 2023. 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
Kew Science Photographs
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Kew Species Profiles
- Kew Species Profiles
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