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Corydalises
Corydalis
Corydalis (from Greek korydalís "crested lark") is a genus of about 540 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and the high mountains of tropical eastern Africa. They are most diverse in China and the Himalayas, with at least 357 species in China. Corydalis species are the only dicots having only a single cotyledon (seed leaf).
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Subgenus Corydalis
subgenusCorydalis
Sophorocapnos
subgenusSophorocapnos
Cremnocapnos
subgenusCremnocapnos
Corydalis platycarpa
speciesCorydalis platycarpa
Hallasan Corydalis
speciesCorydalis hallaisanensis
Corydalis huangshanensis
speciesCorydalis huangshanensis
Bipapillatae
subgenusBipapillatae
Corydalis albipetala
speciesCorydalis albipetala
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.57
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.58
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.125
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.123
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1332
Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.76
Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.53
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.283
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Herbs and Trees, Volume 5
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.58
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 8)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.71
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55818.