Gentiana: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Gentianales
- Family
- Gentianaceae
- Genus
- Gentiana
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Gentiana
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gentiana
Gentiana () is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the gentian family (Gentianaceae), the tribe Gentianeae, and the monophyletic subtribe Gentianinae. With over 300 species, it is considered a large genus. Gentians are notable for their mostly large trumpet-shaped flowers, which are often of an intense blue hue.
The genus name is a tribute to Gentius, an Illyrian king who may have discovered tonic properties in gentians.
...Gentiana in languages:
- Basque
- Gentziana
- Bulgarian
- Тинтява
- Catalan
- Gencianes
- Chinese
- 龍膽屬
- Czech
- hořec
- Danish
- Ensian
- Dutch
- Gentiaan
- English
- Gentians
- Finnish
- Katkerot
- Finnish
- kielikatkerot
- French
- Gentianes
- German
- Enzian
- Hungarian
- Tárnics
- Italian
- Genziana
- Japanese
- リンドウ属
- Korean
- 용담속
- Lithuanian
- Gencijonas
- Polish
- Goryczka
- Russian
- Горечавка
- Swedish
- gentianor
- Ukrainian
- Тирлич
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Asclepiadeae
- Calathianae
- Chondrophylla
- Ciminalis
- Cruciata
- Dolichocarpa
- Fimbricorona
- Frigida
- Gentiana
- Gentiana argentea
- Gentiana atlantica
- Gentiana baeuerlenii
- Gentiana beamanii
- Gentiana boissieri
- Gentiana chazaroi
- Gentiana crassuloides
- Gentiana douglasiana
- Gentiana ettingshausenii
- Gentiana gayi
- Gentiana grumii
- Gentiana hesseliana
- Gentiana karelinii
- Gentiana manshurica
- Gentiana membranulifera
- Gentiana nudicaulis
- Gentiana oligophylla
- Gentiana perpusilla
- Gentiana taliensis
- Gentiana tenuissima
- Gentiana timida
- Gentiana tornezyana
- Gentiana tricolor
- Gentiana wangchukii
- Isomeria
- Kudoa
- Microsperma
- Phyllocalyx
- Pneumonanthe