Amianthium A. Gray. Fly-poison.
A monotypic genus, an herb of temperate e. North America. Zomlefer et al. (2001) confirm that Amianthium should be treated as a monotypic genus. Amianthium has a chromosome number of 2n=32 (Zomlefer & Smith 2002). Like other members of the family, it produces very toxic alkaloids.
Ref: Tamura In Kubitzki (1998a); Utech (2002g) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002a); Zomlefer (1997a); Zomlefer & Judd (2002); Zomlefer & Smith (2002); Zomlefer et al. (2001). Show full citations.
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