''Eriophyton'' is a genus of plants in the
Lamiaceae, first described in 1830. Its species are native to
Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...
, western
China, and the
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 10 ...
.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref>[Bendiksby, M., Thorbek, L., Scheen, A.-C., Lindqvist, C. & Ryding, O. (2011). An updated phylogeny and classification of Lamiaceae subfamily Lamioideae. Taxon 60: 471-484.]
;Species[
#'' Eriophyton nepalense'' (Hedge) Ryding - Nepal
#'' Eriophyton rhomboideum'' (Benth.) Ryding - Tibet, Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Himalayas of northern India
#'' Eriophyton staintonii'' (Hedge) Ryding - Nepal
#'' Eriophyton sunhangii'' Bo Xu, Zhi M.Li & Boufford - Tibet
#'' Eriophyton tuberosum'' (Hedge) Ryding - Tibet, Nepal
#'' Eriophyton wallichii'' Benth. - Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan
]
References
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Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae genera