Aristolochia gorgona (
Aristolochiaceae), a new species with giant flowers from Costa Rica and Panama.
Aristolochiaceae. In Lista de Especies da Flora do Brasil.
The genus Aristolochia (
Aristolochiaceae) is found in wide areas, from the tropics to temperate zones and consists of about 400 species.
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In Belgium, at least 70 people required renal transplant or dialysis for interstitial fibrosis of the kidney after taking the wrong herb from the
Aristolochiaceae family, again as a dietary aid.
The spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus (L.)) feeds on spicebush (Lindera benzoin (L.) Blume) and sassafras (Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees, Lauraceae), while the pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor (L.)) feeds on pipevines (Aristolochia spp.,
Aristolochiaceae).
The birthwort family (
Aristolochiaceae) contains more than 400 species, most of them tropical and subtropical, but only has a single species that grows in the southern taiga, asarabacca (Asarum europaeum).
The effect of native vegetation on the susceptibility of Aristolochia reticulata (
Aristolochiaceae) to herbivore attack.
Ehrlich and Raven (1964) regarded it most likely that the ancestral host plant family was
Aristolochiaceae. In contrast, Scott (1986) noted that Fabaceae were eaten by the most basal branches of several butterfly families and suggested that the ancestral host probably was a legume.
Parsimony optimization implies that the ovary was at least partly inferior; the combination of free carpels and adnation of other parts to them is rare in living plants, but it does occur (e.g., in Saruma,
Aristolochiaceae: Dickison, 1992).