Kingdonia

Taxobox
name = Kingdonia


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
unranked_classis = eudicots
ordo = Ranunculales
familia = Kingdoniaceae
genus = "Kingdonia"
species = "K. uniflora"
binomial = "Kingdonia uniflora"
binomial_authority = A.S.Foster ex Airy Shaw (1964)

"Kingdonia uniflora" is a species of perennial herbs native to China. The plants have one leaf and a short (0.1 m) flower stalk with a small (8 mm) flower.cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200008017 | title = Kingdonia uniflora | work = Flora of China]

It grows at high elevations in West and North China.

Classification

"Kingdonia" is classified as the only genus in the family Kingdoniaceae [ [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/kingdoni.htm Kingdoniaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). " [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ The families of flowering plants] : descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval." Version: 3rd May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com] or as a member of the family Circaeasteraceae along with "Circaeaster agrestis". [ cite journal | title = Pollen Morphology and the Relationships of Circaeaster, of Kingdonia, and of Sargentodoxa to the Ranunculales | author = Joan W. Nowicke and John J. Skvarla | journal = American Journal of Botany | volume = 69 | issue = 6 | date = July 1982 | pages = 990-998 | url = http://www.jstor.org/pss/2442896 ] Other sources may classify "Kingdonia" in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. In any case it is in the order Ranunculales.

References

External links

:* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=233200&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser] :* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Kingdoniaceae links at CSDL, Texas]