iAconitum napellus
Plant in flower, Austria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Ranunculaceae Genus: Aconitum Species: A. napellus
Binomial name
Aconitum napellus L.

Acontium napellus (Monkshood, "aconite", "Wolf's Bane", Fuzi, and "Monk's Blood") is a species of Aconitum, native and endemic to western and central Europe. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta... It has been suggested that Angiospermae, and Anthophyta be merged into this article or section. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families See text The Ranunculales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicots. ... genera see text Ranunculaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. ... This article is about the herb sometimes known as wolfsbane. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as  , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ... This article is about the herb sometimes known as wolfsbane. ... In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ...

It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1 m tall, with hairless stems and leaves. The leaves are rounded, 5-10 cm diameter, palmately divided into five to seven deeply lobed segments. The flowers are dark purple to bluish-purple, narrow oblong helmet-shaped, 1-2 cm tall. This article is about the plants used in cooking and medicine. ... Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... The leaves of a Beech tree A leaf with laminar structure and pinnate venation In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Field of Poppy flowers Cluster of Clivia miniata flowers A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ...

Nine subspecies are accepted by the Flora Europaea: In zoology, as in other branches of biology, subspecies is the rank immediately subordinate to a species. ...

• Aconitum napellus subsp. napellus. Southwest England.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. corsicum (Gáyer) W.Seitz. Corsica.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. firmum (Rchb.) Gáyer. Central and eastern Europe.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. fissurae (Nyár.) W.Seitz. Balkans to southwest Russia.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. hians (Rchb.) Gáyer. Central Europe.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. lusitanicum Rouy. Southwest Europe.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. superbum (Fritsch) W.Seitz. Western Balkans.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. tauricum (Wulfen) Gáyer. Eastern Alps, southern Carpathians.
• Aconitum napellus subsp. vulgare (DC.) Rouy & Foucaud. Alps, Pyrenees, northern Spain.

Plants native to Asia and North America formerly listed as A. napellus are now regarded as separate species.

Uses

Like other species in the genus, it is extremely poisonous, generating enough cardiac poison to be used to tip spears and arrows for hunting and battle in ancient times, also earning A. napellus its namesake. The skull and crossbones symbol traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ... This page is about the muscular organ, the Heart. ... For the book and the movie with the same title refer to The Namesake. ...

Has been used ethnomedically at low dilutions in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), to treat "coldness", general debility, and "Yang deficiency", Ethnomedicine is a sub-field of medical anthropology and deals with the study of traditional medicines: not only those that have relevant written sources (e. ... Note: this page refers to dilution in the sense of trademark law. ... Traditional Chinese medicine shop in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. ...

References

• Flora Europaea: Aconitum napellus
• http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/circulationaha;102/23/2907
• http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/felter/aconitum-nape.html
• http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/1_1com.htm

19th century illustration Aconitum Napellus from Koehlers Medicinal-Plants 1887 Source: List of Koehler Images. ...

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External links

• Aconite, Aconitum napellus - Resource for aconitum napellus seed & information