| Name | Leimanthium Willdenow |
| Authorship | Willdenow |
| Rank | Genus |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Liliaceae |
| Contains | Leimanthium glaucum (Nutt.) Schult. & Schult.f. Leimanthium hybridum (Walter) Sweet Leimanthium laetum (Aiton) Willd. Leimanthium monoicum (Walter) Sweet Leimanthium nuttallii (A.Gray) Hook. Leimanthium pallidum Willd. Leimanthium sibiricum (L.) Schult. & Schult.f. Leimanthium sp. Leimanthium virginicum (L.) Willd. |
| Remarks | nom. syn. of Melanthium Linnaeus 1753 (by lectotypification) |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:24423-1 |
| Citation | 1808 Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. 2: 24 |