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|accepted_name=Medeola
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 339. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 158. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Indian cucumber-root;concombre sauvage;jarnotte
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Medeola
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Medeola]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Medea, mythical sorceress
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 15, 51, 56, 152
|treatment_page=page 150
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, from tapered, white, tuberlike, horizontal rhizomes. <b>Stems</b> simple, slender. <b>Leaves</b> in 2 whorls; proximal blades oblong-oblanceolate, base attenuate, margins entire, apex acuminate; distal blades ovate, rounded at base, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, umbellate, (2–)3–9-flowered, sessile. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals caducous, 6, similar, recurved, distinct; stamens 6; anthers versatile, oblong, extrorse; ovary superior, 3-locular; styles 3, recurved, distinct to base, often purple; pedicel declined or spreading in flower, erect in fruit. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, dark purple to black, globose. <b>Seeds</b> few, shiny brown, subglobose. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=e North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!--
--><p><i>Medeola</i> was removed from its long association with <i>Trillium</i> and Paris (tribe Parideae) when A. L. Takhtajan (1987, 1997) created the monotypic Medeolaceae, placing it next to a strictly defined Liliaceae. M. N. Tamura (1998c) included <i>Medeola</i> and <i>Clintonia</i> in the tribe Medeoloideae within a narrowly defined Liliaceae. The association of <i>Medeola</i> and <i>Clintonia</i> is supported by molecular analysis (K. Hayashi et al. 1998, 2001; T. B. Patterson and T. J. Givnish 1998) as well as morphology (R. Y. Berg 1962; M. Takahashi 1984; F. H. Utech 1978e), embryology (R. Y. Berg 1962b), and cytology (R. M. Stewart and R. Bamford 1942; M. N. Tamura 1995).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bell1974a
|text=Bell, A. D. 1974. Rhizome organization in relation to vegetative spread in Medeola virginiana. J. Arnold Arbor. 55: 458–468.
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|id=berg1962a
|text=Berg, R. Y. 1962. Morphology and taxonomic position of Medeola, Liliaceae. Skr. Norske Vidensk.-Akad. Oslo, Mat.-Naturvidensk. Kl., n. s. 3: 1–56.
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|id=berg1962b
|text=Berg, R. Y. 1962b. Contribution to the comparative embryology of the Liliaceae: Scoliopus, Trillium, Paris and Medeola. Skr. Norske Vidensk.-Akad. Oslo, Mat.-Naturvidensk. Kl., n. s. 4: 1–64.
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|id=utech1978b
|text=Utech, F. H. 1978e. Floral vascular anatomy of Medeola virginiana L. (Liliaceae-Parideae = Trilliaceae) and tribal note. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 47: 13–28.
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name=Medeola
|author=Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=e North America.
|reference=bell1974a;berg1962a;berg1962b;utech1978b
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
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|genus=Medeola
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