Editing Mitchella

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Mitchella repens 2004.JPG
|image_caption = ''[[Mitchella repens]]''
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Mitchella
|authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
|type_species = ''[[Mitchella repens]]''
|type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
|synonyms = * ''Chamaedaphne'' <small>Mitch.</small>
* ''Disperma'' <small>[[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|J.F.Gmel.]]</small>
* ''Geoherpum'' <small>[[Carl Ludwig von Willdenow|Willd.]]</small>
* ''Perdicesca'' <small>Prov.</small>
}}

'''''Mitchella''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Rubiaceae]]. It is found from [[China]] to temperate eastern [[Asia]], and from eastern [[Canada]] to [[Guatemala]].<ref name="WCSP">{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Mitchella|title=''Mitchella'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae|accessdate=13 April 2016}}</ref>

The genus ''Mitchella'' was named by [[Carl Linnaeus]] after his friend [[John Mitchell (geographer)|John Mitchell]] (1711–1768), an English physician who lived in America and gave Linnaeus much valuable information on the American flora.

It consists of two species of glabrous or puberulous, creeping, rhizomatous [[herb]]s with white axillary [[flower]]s with funnel-shaped [[Petal#Corolla|corolla]]s. They prefer mildly acidic soils, growing in woods near [[pine]]s, [[Tsuga|hemlock]] or mossy hummocks.

The fruits of ''Mitchella repens'', known as partridge berries, are eaten in some places.

== Species ==
*''[[Mitchella repens]]'' <small>[[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]</small> - partridge berry - from eastern [[Canada]] to [[Guatemala]]
*''[[Mitchella undulata]]'' <small>Siebold & [[Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini|Zucc.]]</small> - [[China]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]], [[Taiwan]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=101&taxon_id=120814 Taiwan plant list: ''Mitchella undulata'']

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[[Category:Rubiaceae genera]]
[[Category:Mitchelleae]]


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