Butomus
| Flowering rush | |
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| Butomus umbellatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Butomaceae Mirb.[1] |
| Genus: | Butomus L. |
| Type species | |
| Butomus umbellatus | |
| Species | |
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Butomus umbellatus[2]
Butomus is the only known genus in the plant family Butomaceae, native to Europe and Asia. It is considered invasive in some parts of the United States.[3]
Taxonomy
The Butomaceae family has been recognized by most
plant family
; it is sometimes called the "flowering-rush family".
The
monocots
.
At the ranks of family and order, this is the same placement as in the Cronquist system. However, Cronquist assumed a much smaller order and assigned the order to subclass Alismatidae, in class Liliopsida
[=monocotyledons].
Species
The family counts one species, Butomus umbellatus, or two according to some authorities.
- Butomus umbellatus L. -
- Butomus umbellatus var. junceus (Turcz.) Micheli - Central Asia (also known as Butomus junceus Turcz.)[6]
References
- hdl:10654/18083
- ^ illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ^ "Flowering rush - Invasive species: Minnesota DNR". www.dnr.state.mn.us. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ^ "Butomus umbellatus in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ "Butomaceae in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- ^ "Search results — The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
External links
- Butomaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards) The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 27 April 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/.
- Monocot families (United States Department of Agriculture)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL, Texas A&M University Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Butomus.
- Butomaceae of Mongolia in FloraGREIF Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine