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Centaurium
Genus of flowering plants in the gentian family Gentianaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the taxon described by Haller, see Rhaponticum.
Centaurium (centaury) is a genus of 20 species in the gentian family (Gentianaceae), tribe Chironieae, subtribe Chironiinae. The genus was named after the centaur Chiron, famed in Greek mythology for his skill in medicinal herbs. It is distributed across Europe and Asia.
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Centaurium | |
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Centaurium erythraea | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Gentianaceae |
Tribe: | Chironieae |
Subtribe: | Chironiinae |
Genus: | Centaurium Hill, 1756 |
Synonyms | |
Erythraea Borkh. |
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Until 2004, Centaurium was given a much wider circumscription, comprising about 50 species ranging across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Australasia, and the Pacific. However this circumscription was polyphyletic, so in 2004 the genus was split into four, being Centaurium sensu stricto, Zeltnera, Gyrandra , and Schenkia.[1]