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Burnleafs
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Burnleafs

Knowltonia

Knowltonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. There are 25 species native to South Africa and Latin America. The juice from the stem of many of the species in the genus is a powerful vesicant.

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9 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Knowltonia

sectionKnowltonia

Pulsatilloides

sectionPulsatilloides

Rigidae

sectionRigidae

Mexicanae

sectionMexicanae

Barneoudia

sectionBarneoudia

Oreithales

sectionOreithales

Crassifoliae

sectionCrassifoliae

Meridium

sectionMeridium

Sellowiae

sectionSellowiae

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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 568955.