Sanicula

Wikispecies

From Medieval Latin sānicula, first attested in Hildegard of Bingen, probably originally meaning Sanicula europaea, derived from sānāre (“to heal”), also sānāria, however also used for various not closely related plants and also a synonym of dispēnsāria used by Linnaeus as Diapensaria.

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae – sanicles, black snakeroots, and closely related species.

• (family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Apiales – order; Apiaceae – family; Saniculoideae – subfamily

• (family): Sanicula europaea (wood sanicle) – type species

• Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Sanicula”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 555b–556a