Dysosma

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants belonging to the barberry family}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Dysosma veitchii - Kunming Botanical Garden - DSC03007.JPG | image_caption = ''Dysosma veitchii'' | taxon = Dysosma | authority = Woodson | type_species = ''Dysosma pleiantha'' | type_species_authority = (Hance) Woodson (holotype)<ref name=h/> | synonyms = ''Podophyllum'' sect. ''Dysosma'' <small>(Woodson) Shaw </small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=c/> }}

'''''Dysosma''''' is a group of herbaceous perennials in the Berberidaceae or barberry family described as a genus in 1928.<ref name=h>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15997821#page/350/mode/1up Woodson, Robert Everard. 1928. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 15: 338-339]</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40000466 Tropicos, Dysosma Woodson ]</ref> It is native to China and Indochina.<ref name=c>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=111136 Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 783 <big>鬼臼属</big> gui jiu shu ''Dysosma'' Woodson]</ref>

The genus is not universally recognised by this name, as some authorities include the plants in the genus ''Podophyllum''. ''Dysosma'' is recognised by other authorities as including only those ''Podophyllum'' species which originate in China.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nargs.org/nargswiki/tiki-index.php?page=Podophyllum+-+including+Dysosma |title=North American Rock Garden Society |access-date=2012-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522043404/http://nargs.org/nargswiki/tiki-index.php?page=Podophyllum+-+including+Dysosma |archive-date=2012-05-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Dysosma'' grow as perennial, rhizomatous wildflowers on the damp and humus-rich floors of deciduous forests. The single umbrella-shaped leaves grow on an erect stem that usually stands {{convert|12|-|24|in}}, but with height varying with species. The leaves may be completely green or mottled and flecked with purple; they have an entire or deeply serrated edge depending on species. The flowers are nodding and in a range of colours. The fruit is a dark red berry.<ref name=c/>

;Species<ref name="plantlist">[http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Berberidaceae/Dysosma/ The Plant List ''Dysosma'' ]</ref> # ''Dysosma aurantiocaulis'' - Yunnan, possibly Myanmar - Endangered # ''Dysosma delavayi'' - Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi # ''Dysosma difformis'' - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Vietnam # ''Dysosma furfuracea'' - Yunnan # ''Dysosma guangxiensis'' - Guangxi # ''Dysosma lichuensis'' - Hubei # ''Dysosma majoensis'' - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan # ''Dysosma majorensis'' - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan # ''Dysosma pleiantha'' - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Zhejiang # ''Dysosma tsayuensis'' - Tibet - Endangered # ''Dysosma veitchii'' - Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan - Endangered # ''Dysosma versipellis'' - Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang - Endangered

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Category:Berberidaceae Category:Flora of China Category:Garden plants Category:Berberidaceae genera