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|accepted_name=Eranthis
|accepted_authority=Salisbury
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=8: 303. 1807, name conserved
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|common_names=Winter-aconite
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ranunculaceae;Eranthis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ranunculaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eranthis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek er, spring, and anthos, flower
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, from ca. 1cm thick rhizomes formed of several subglobose segments (tubers). <b>Leaves</b> basal, petiolate. <b>Leaf</b> blade deeply, palmately divided or 3–5-foliolate; leaflets ovate, unlobed to 3-lobed, margins sharply cleft, irregularly dentate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, flowers solitary; involucres present, involucral bracts 3, leaflike, closely subtending flower. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals not persistent in fruit, 5–8, yellow, plane, narrowly obovate or elliptic, ca. 15–18 mm; petals 5–8, distinct, yellow [white], cupped around nectary, 2-lipped, ± clawed, ca. 4mm; nectary present; stamens 30–36; filaments filiform; staminodes absent between stamens and pistils; pistils 3–9(–11), 1-carpellate; ovules 6–9 per pistil; style present. <b>Fruit</b> follicles, aggregate, stipitate, flat, [linear] oblong-lanceolate, sides with veins conspicuous upon drying; beak terminal, straight or distally curved, 2–3 mm. <b>Seeds</b> olive-brown, ovoid to ellipsoid, somewhat flattened, smooth. <b>x</b> =8.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 8 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The seven Asian species are sometimes segregated as Shibateranthis Nakai. Of the species that are cultivated in North America, only one is known to escape and infrequently become established; more often it is found persisting after cultivation.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=mcintosh1989a
|text=McIntosh, F. 1989. Eranthis. In: S. M. Walters et al., eds. 1984+. The European Garden Flora. 3+ vols. Cambridge, etc. Vol. 3, p. 331.
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name=Eranthis
|author=Bruce D. Parfitt
|authority=Salisbury
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ranunculaceae
|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia.
|reference=mcintosh1989a
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
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|genus=Eranthis
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