Marah

Marah oregana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cucurbitales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Cucurbitales

Familia: Cucurbitaceae
Tribus: Sicyoeae
Genus: Marah
Species: M. fabacea – M. gilensis – M. guadalupensis – M. horrida – M. macrocarpus – M. micrantha – M. oregana – M. watsonii

Name

Marah Kellogg, 1854.

Type species: Marah oregana Torr. & A.Gray) Howell Fl. N.W. Amer. 2: 239. (1898) Designated as synonym M. muricata Kellogg Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 38–39. (1854)

Note: Kellogg (1854) assigned masculine gender to Marah and mentioned that the significance of the genus name may be found in "Exodus xv: 22–26". However in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 18. (1863), he treated Marah as feminine. [In Hebrew, Mar (masculine) and marah (feminine) = bitter (vide Avinoam Danin (HUJ)] (IPNI, 2014).

Synonyms

Heterotypic
- Megarrhiza Torr. & A. Gray Rep. Explor. Railroad Pacific 12: 61. (1860). However, some authorities consider Megarrhiza macrocarpa (Greene) Tidestr. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 48(9): 43. (1935) to be an accepted species, which would render this synonymy illegitimate, (The Plant List, 2014 & Tropicos, 2014).

References

Kellogg, A. 1854. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 1: 38.
Kellogg, A. 1864. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2: 18.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Marah. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Dec 30.

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Marah. Published online. Accessed Dec 30 2019.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Marah in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Dec 30.

Tropicos.org 2019. Marah . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Dec 30.

Vernacular names

English: Man Roots

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