Valeriana
Genus in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection
Distribution
© Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)
Valerian
Perennial herbs, often with a distinctive smell of valerian. Inflorescence a thyrse. Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Calyx developing in fruit into a pappus of 5-15 plumose awns. Corolla slightly saccate at base, with 5 lobes. Stamens 3. Fruit a flattened achene with 6 filiform ribs. © Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)
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- Parent Taxon
- Caprifoliaceae
- Taxonomic Completion
1.38%
4 of 289 accepted Species- Global Pollen Project UUID
- b44646d5-8608-44cf-81e6-c33126d871d4
- Botanical Reference
- None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources
This taxon is currently linked to the following locations.
The Plant ListGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility