Gymnospermium

This article is about the Berberidaceae genus. Not to be confused with the Asteraceae genus Gymnosperma or the non-flowering seed plants Gymnospermae.

Gymnospermium is a group of tuberous flowering plants in the family Berberidaceae described as a genus in 1839.^[1][3] It is native to temperate Europe and Asia.^[4][5]

Gymnospermium
Gymnospermium albertii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Berberidaceae
Genus:	Gymnospermium Spach
Type species
Gymnospermium altaicum Spach[1][2]

Gymnospermium albertii: container plant in the Alpine House at Kew Gardens

G. odessanum growing in a Ukrainian nature reserve

G. altaicum growing in a Swedish botanic garden

Species

The genus contains the following species:^[6]

1. Gymnospermium albertii - Uzbekistan
2. Gymnospermium altaicum - Altai, Xinjiang
3. Gymnospermium darwasicum - Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
4. Gymnospermium kiangnanense - Anhui, Zhejiang
5. Gymnospermium maloi - southern Albania
6. Gymnospermium microrrhynchum - Jilin, Liaoning, Korea
7. Gymnospermium odessanum - Greece, Ukraine, Crimea
8. Gymnospermium peloponnesiacum - Greece
9. Gymnospermium scipetarum - Greece, North Macedonia, Albania
10. Gymnospermium silvaticum - Afghanistan, Tajikistan
11. Gymnospermium smirnovii - Kakheti, Ukraine
12. Gymnospermium sylvaticum - Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
13. Gymnospermium vitellinum - Central Asia

References

1. Spach, Édouard. 1839. Histoire Naturelle des Végétaux. Phanérogames 8: 66-68 partly in French, partly in Latin
2. Tropicos, Gymnospermium Spach
3. Kubitzki, Klaus; Rohwer, Jens G.; Bittrich, Volker (2002). Flowering plants, dicotyledons: magnoliid, hamamelid, and caryophyllid families. Springer. p. 149.
4. Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 799 牡丹草属 mu dan cao shu Gymnospermium Spach
5. Catalogue of Life, Gymnospermium
6. The Plant List, Gymnospermium