Family Code: MELANT Genus Code: AMIAN Genus CN: amianthium Genus Authority: A. Gray Genus Summary: A monotypic genus, an herb of temperate e. North America. Zomlefer et al. (2001) confirm that Amianthium should be treated as a monotypic genus. Amianthium has a chromosome number of 2n=32 (Zomlefer & Smith 2002). Like other members of the family, it produces very toxic alkaloids. Genus References: Zomlefer (1997a)=Z; Zomlefer & Judd (2002)=Y; Utech in FNA (2002a); Tamura in Kubitzki (1998a). Last Updated: 2019-11-29 Publish: 1