Paris (genus)
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This article is about the flowering plant genus. For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation).
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Paris is the botanical name of a genus of flowering plants. It exists of less than two dozen herbaceous plants: the best known species is Paris quadrifolia.
These plants are closely related to Trillium, with the distinction traditionally being that Trillium contains species which have trimerous (three-petaled) flowers, and Paris contains species which have 4- to 11-merous flowers.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Susan B. Farmer and Edward E. Schilling (2002). "Phylogenetic analyses of Trilliaceae based on morphological and molecular data". Systematic Botany 27(4): 674-692.
