Mitchella

Mitchella
Mitchella
Mitchella repens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Morindeae[1]
Genus: Mitchella
L.
Species

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Mitchella is a small genus from the family Rubiaceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia.

The genus Mitchella L., was named by Carl Linnaeus after his friend John Mitchell (1711–1768), an English physician who lived in America and gave Linnaeus much valuable information on American flora.

It consists of a few glabrous or puberulous, creeping, rhizomatous herbs with white axillary flowers with funnel-shaped corolla. They prefer mildly acidic soils, growing in woods near pines or hemlock or mossy hummocks.

Selected species

  • Mitchella ovata DC. (Ecuador)
  • Mitchella repens L. - Partridge Berry (eastern North America, Central America)
  • Mitchella undulata Siebold & Zucc. (Japan, Taiwan)

References

  1. ^ "Genus Mitchella". Taxonomy. UniProt. http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/45180. Retrieved 2010-02-13. 

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  • Mitchella —   Mitchella M. repens …   Wikipedia Español

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  • mitchella — mitch·el·la (mĭ chelґə) 1. any plant of the genus Mitchella. 2. the dried plant Mitchella repens, used as a diuretic, astringent, and antidiarrheal, and formerly as a uterine tonic …   Medical dictionary

  • Mitchella — ID 54496 Symbol Key MITCH Common Name mitchella Family Rubiaceae Category Dicot Division Magnoliophyta US Nativity N/A US/NA Plant Yes State Distribution AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY,… …   USDA Plant Characteristics

  • Mitchella — noun creeping evergreen herbs of North America • Syn: ↑genus Mitchella • Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Rubiaceae, ↑family Rubiaceae, ↑madder family …   Useful english dictionary

  • Mitchella — Mit·chel·la (mĭ chelґə) [John Mitchell, American botanist, 18th century] a genus of creeping perennial evergreen herbs of the family Rubiaceae. M. reґpens L. is the partridge berry or deerberry, a North American species that when dried… …   Medical dictionary

  • Mitchella L. — Symbol MITCH Common Name mitchella Botanical Family Rubiaceae …   Scientific plant list

  • Mitchella repens — Partridge Berry Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …   Wikipedia

  • Mitchella (Asteroid) — Asteroid (1455) Mitchella Eigenschaften des Orbits (Simulation) Orbittyp Hauptgürtelasteroid Große Halbachse 2,2464  …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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