Hepatica P. Miller. Common name: Hepatica, Liverleaf.
A genus of 7-12 species, perennial herbs, of Eurasia and e. North America. Although Hoot, Meyer, & Manning (2012), Hoot, Reznicek, & Palmer (1994), and others argued that Hepatica should be included in Anemone, a series of later papers cast doubt on that course; it now seems best to leave (or return) Hepatica to generic rank, pending additional research. Mosyakin & de Lange (2018) provide a succinct discussion of the need to split Anemone and the approach here taken, following them and Mosyakin (2016, 2018).
Subfamily: Ranunculoideae. Tribe: Anemoneae.References: Dutton, Keener, & Ford (1997) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1997); Hoot, Meyer, & Manning (2012); Jiang et al. (2017); Steyermark & Steyermark (1960); Tamura (1993) In Kubitzki, Rohwer, & Bittrich (1993); Xiang et al. (2024). Show full citations.
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