Gymnospermium

This article is about the Berberidaceae genus and is not to be confused with the Asteraceae genus Gymnosperma or the non-flowering seed plants Gymnospermae.

Gymnospermium is a group of tuberous flowering plants in the family Berberidaceae described as a genus in 1839.^[1][3] It is native to temperate Europe and Asia.^[4][5]

Gymnospermium
Gymnospermium albertii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Berberidaceae
Genus:	Gymnospermium Spach
Type species
Gymnospermium altaicum Spach[1][2]

Gymnospermium albertii: container plant in the Alpine House at Kew Gardens

G. odessanum growing in a Ukrainian nature reserve

G. altaicum growing in a Swedish botanic garden

Species

The genus contains the following species:^[6]

1. Gymnospermium albertii - Uzbekistan
2. Gymnospermium altaicum - Altai, Xinjiang
3. Gymnospermium darwasicum - Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
4. Gymnospermium kiangnanense - Anhui, Zhejiang
5. Gymnospermium maloi - southern Albania
6. Gymnospermium microrrhynchum - Jilin, Liaoning, Korea
7. Gymnospermium odessanum - Greece, Ukraine, Crimea
8. Gymnospermium peloponnesiacum - Greece
9. Gymnospermium scipetarum - Greece, North Macedonia, Albania
10. Gymnospermium silvaticum - Afghanistan, Tajikistan
11. Gymnospermium smirnovii - Kakheti, Ukraine
12. Gymnospermium sylvaticum - Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
13. Gymnospermium vitellinum - Central Asia