Niphogeton

Niphogeton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Apiaceae
Genus:	Niphogeton Schltdl.

Niphogeton is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae family. It includes around 15 species,^[1] including Niphogeton sprucei and Niphogeton ternatus.

Further reading

• Mildred E. Mathias & Lincoln Constance (1962). "The Andean genus Niphogeton (Umbelliferae) revisited". Brittonia 14 (2): 148–155. JSTOR 2805219.
• Mildred E. Mathias & Lincoln Constance (1976). "The genus Niphogeton (Umbelliferae)—a second encore". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 72 (4): 311–324. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1976.tb01367.x.

References

1. Richard Evans Schultes & Robert Francis Raffauf (1990). The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia. Historical, ethno- & economic botany series 2. Dioscorides Press. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-931146-14-5.