Legousia

Venus' looking glass
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Campanulaceae
Subfamily:	Campanuloideae
Genus:	Legousia; Durande, 1782
Species
	7 species, see text

Legousia (Venus' looking-glass) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, native to Europe. Species in the genus used to be placed under genus Specularia along with plants in genera Triodanis and Heterocodon as well as some species in genus Campanula. However, the division has been confirmed evolutionarily comprehensive by a Campanulaceae phylogeny based on DNA molecular evidence.^[1]

Species

Legousia species include:

Legousia falcata (Ten.) Fritsch ex Janch. 1907
Legousia hybrida (L.) Delarbre 1800
Legousia julianii (Batt.) Briq. 1931
Legousia pentagonia (L.) Thell. 1908
Legousia scabra (Lowe) Gamisans 1985
Legousia skvortsovii Proskur. 1980
Legousia snogerupii Tan, Biel & Sfikas. 2015
Legousia speculum-veneris (L.) Durande ex Vill. 1786

Synonyms

Apenula Neck. – Elem. Bot. 1: 234 (1790).
Legouzia Delarbre – Fl. Auvergne, ed. 2: 45 (1800).
Specularia Heist. ex A.DC. – Monogr. Campan.: 344 (1830), nom. superfl.
Pentagonia Möhring ex Kuntze – Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 381 (1891), nom. illeg.

References

^ Crowl, Andrew; Mavrodiev, Evgeny; Mansion, Guilhem; Haberle, Rosemarie; Pistarino, Annalaura; Kamari, Georgia; Phitos, Dimitrios; Borsch, Thomas; Cellinese, Nico (2014). "Phylogeny of Campanuloideae (Campanulaceae) with Emphasis on the Utility of Nuclear Pentatricopeptide Repeat (PPR) Genes". PLOS ONE. 9 (4): e94199. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...994199C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094199. PMC 3981779. PMID 24718519.

"Legousia Overview". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP).
"Legousia Synonyms". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP).
Tan, K., Biel, B. and Sfikas, G., 2015. Legousia snogerupii (Campanulaceae), a new species from southeastern Kiklades, Greece. Phytotaxa, 201(1), pp.63-70.

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[1] Crowl, Andrew; Mavrodiev, Evgeny; Mansion, Guilhem; Haberle, Rosemarie; Pistarino, Annalaura; Kamari, Georgia; Phitos, Dimitrios; Borsch, Thomas; Cellinese, Nico (2014). "Phylogeny of Campanuloideae (Campanulaceae) with Emphasis on the Utility of Nuclear Pentatricopeptide Repeat (PPR) Genes". PLOS ONE. 9 (4): e94199. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...994199C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094199. PMC 3981779. PMID 24718519.

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