English: Buttercup family; Ranonkelfamilie.
Content: magnoflorine, berberine; glucosiden ranunculine, proto-anemonine, anemonine; cyanogenic compounds; saponins; caffeine; iodine containing oil; linol, linolen acid; lactons; heart glycosids; alkaloids.
BotanyHerbs; annual to perennial; some shrubs or lianas, Clematis.
Flowers: hermaphrodite or dioecious.
Leaves: alternate, some opposite, Clematis; simple or compound; margins entire, crenate, serrate or dentate; petiolate; stipules absent.
Inflorescences: solitary or cymes, racemes or panicles; terminal or axillary.
Flowers: actinomorphic or zygomorphic; whorled, partially whorled or spiral; calyx polysepalous or partially gamosepalous; sepals (3-)5-8, often petaloid; corolla polypetalous, partially gamopetalous or gamopetalous; petals 0 to 50, imbricate, clawed, sessile, various colors; stamens many, free, maturing centripetally, free from the perianth, 1 to 13, whorled or spiralled; anthers adnate, dehiscing via longitudinal slits or longitudinal valves; gynoecium superior, apocarpous, 1-3-100-many carpelled; carpels non-stylate or stylate; ovules 2 to many, placentation marginal or basal.
Fruit: follicles or achenes; dry or rarely fleshy; aggregated or rarely single; dehiscent or indehiscent.
TaxonomyThis family is placed in
Phase 3. They have the pleasing, adapting, yielding quality of
Phase 3.
LiteratureSawada Eva, Michael Jordan, V.H. Heywood, Sankaran Rajan, Grey-Wilson Christofer.
Uitgeverij Schors 2000 (ISBN 90 378 448 ) Publisher Blandford 997 (ISBN 0-737-245-8) Publisher Batsford 003 (ISBN 0 734 7422 X)
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Eine Arzneimittelprüfung mit
Adlumia fungosa; Allg. Hom. Zeitung, 22/2, 97.
Das Prüfungsbild der Papaverazee
Adlumia fungosa; Allg. Hom. Zeitung, 224/4, 979.
Beobachtungen während einer Arzneimittelprüfung mit
Adlumia fungosa D30; Allg. Hom. Zeitung,
David S. Riley; Mezger and Mayer, proving, 95, on 4 persons.