Wahlenbergia
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Wahlenbergia is a genus of around 260 species of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution except for North America; the highest species diversity is in southern temperate countries, particularly Africa and Australasia.[1] Wahlenbergia species have dispersed widely, even to oceanic islands, and there are four species known from the island of Saint Helena, including the now extinct species W. roxburghii and W. burchellii.[1] The genus was named after Göran Wahlenberg (a Swedish botanist who taught at Uppsala University) by German botanist Heinrich Schrader in 1814.[2]
Selected species
- Africa
- Wahlenbergia androsacea (South Africa)
- Wahlenbergia capensis (South Africa)
- Wahlenbergia capillacea (South Africa)
- Wahlenbergia lobelioides (Canary Islands, Madeira)
- Wahlenbergia perrieri (endemic to Madagascar)
- Wahlenbergia rivularis (South Africa)
- Wahlenbergia undulata (South Africa; giant bellflower)
- Asia
- Wahlenbergia gracilis (also western Pacific Ocean islands)
- Wahlenbergia hirsuta (Himalayas)
- Wahlenbergia marginata (China, Himalayas)
- Wahlenbergia peduncularis (Himalayas)
- Australia
- Wahlenbergia aridicola
- Wahlenbergia caryophylloides
- Wahlenbergia ceracea (waxy bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia communis (tufted bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia consimilis
- Wahlenbergia densifolia (fairy bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia fluminalis (river bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia glabra
- Wahlenbergia gloriosa (royal bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia gracilis (sprawling bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia gracilenta (annual bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia graniticola
- Wahlenbergia gymnoclada
- Wahlenbergia insulae-howei (Lord Howe Island)
- Wahlenbergia littoricola
- Wahlenbergia luteola
- Wahlenbergia multicaulis
- Wahlenbergia planiflora
- Wahlenbergia preissii
- Wahlenbergia queenslandica
- Wahlenbergia rupicola
- Wahlenbergia saxicola (rock bluebell)
- Wahlenbergia scopulicola
Wahlenbergia stricta - Wahlenbergia telfordii
- Wahlenbergia tumidifructa
- Wahlenbergia victoriensis
- Europe
Wahlenbergia hederacea - Wahlenbergia nutabunda
- New Zealand
Wahlenbergia violacea - Wahlenbergia cartilaginea
- Wahlenbergia congesta
- Wahlenbergia matthewsii
- Wahlenbergia tuberosa
- Wahlenbergia violacea
- South America
- Wahlenbergia berteroi (Juan Fernandez Islands)
- Wahlenbergia fernandeziana (Juan Fernandez Islands)
- Wahlenbergia grahamiae (Juan Fernandez Islands)
- Wahlenbergia larraini (Juan Fernandez Islands)
- Wahlenbergia linarioides
- Wahlenbergia peruviana
- Saint Helena (South Atlantic Ocean)
References
- ^ a b Mabberley, David J. (2017). Mabberley's Plant-Book (4th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107115026.
- ^ "Australian Floral Emblems – Wahlenbergia gloriosa". Reprinted from an issue of a newsletter of the Canberra Region of SGAP. Australian Plants Online. September 1982. Archived from the original on 23 December 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
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