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Lysichiton

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Lysichiton is a genus in the family Araceae. These plants are known commonly as skunk cabbage or less often as swamp lantern. The spelling Lysichitum is also found. The genus has two species, one found in north-east Asia (Japan and Russian Far East), the other in north-west America (Aleutians to Santa Cruz County in California).

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAlismatales
  5. FamilyAraceae
Native toAlaska, Aleutian Is., British Columbia, California, Idaho, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Montana, Oregon, Sakhalin
Observations recorded47,754

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
173
With media
151
Family
Araceae
Collections
UCMP, OSU, GH, HPSU, COLO, USF
Recorded in
United States, Canada

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Taxonomy
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Lysichiton is a genus in the family Araceae. These plants are known commonly as skunk cabbage or less often as swamp lantern. The spelling Lysichitum is also found. The genus has two species, one found in north-east Asia (Japan and Russian Far East), the other in north-west America (Aleutians to Santa Cruz County in California).

==Description==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lysichiton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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