Veche , or milestone ( lat. Cicúta ) - a genus of herbaceous plants of the Umbellifera family ( Umbelliferae ). It combines a small number of species containing the strongest neurotoxins.
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Cicuta virosa L. [2] - The Poison | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Botanical Description
Botanical illustration from a book by O. V. Tome Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz , 1885
Perennial water - loving herbs with fleshy roots. Leaves twice or thrice palmate, dissected, dentate lobes. Wrapper may be present, no bracts, numerous bracts.
Flowers in convex complex umbrellas, usually white, sometimes greenish or pinkish. The calyx is noticeable, with sharp leaf-shaped teeth. The stigma of the pestle is capitate, the column is long and thin.
Fruits are spherical to broad-ovoid, semi-fruit five-ribbed, single tubules of oil in the hollows.
Toxicity
In all parts of plants, especially in large quantities - in the roots, contains strong poison cycutoxin , which has a neurotoxic effect that causes rhabdomyolysis . The action of the poison is close to strychnine [3] .
Range
Widely distributed in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
Taxonomy and taxonomy
Cicuta L. , 1753 , Species Plantarum 1: 255 [4] .
Synonyms
- Cicutaria [ Tourn. ] Lam. , 1779, nom. illeg.
- Keraskomion Raf. , 1838
Views
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 5 species [5] :
- Cicuta bulbifera L. , 1753 - Five onion-bearing
- Cicuta curtissii JMCoult. & Rose
- Cicuta douglasii ( DC. ) JMCoult. & Rose , 1900
- Cicuta maculata L. , 1753 - Five-spotted
- Cicuta virosa L. , 1753 - Five Poisonous
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Information about the genus Cicuta in the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) .
- ↑ Hopkins, PM; Ellis, FR Hyperthermic and Hypermetabolic Disorders. - Cambridge, New York, 1996. - P. 253. - 286 p. - ISBN 0-521-44381-4 .
- ↑ Sp. Pl. 1: 255.
- ↑ Cicuta . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of appeal September 27, 2016.
Literature
- Shishkin B.K. Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1950. - T. 16 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin . - S. 376-378. - 648 p. - 3500 copies.
- Abrams, L .; Ferris, RS An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States. - 1951. - Vol. III. - P. 237-238. - 874 p. - ISBN 0-8047-0005-2 .