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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Subfamily: | Campanuloideae |
| Genus: | Legousia Durande, 1782 |
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Species
editLegousia 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
A 2019 article in Willdenowia proposes that L. pentagonia should be considered as a subspecies of L. speculum-veneris, L. castellana and L. scabra be reduced to L. falcata and L. skvortsovii be reduced to L. hybrida.[2]
Synonyms
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Morphometric analyses and species delimitation in Legousia (Campanulaceae), 2019, Eric Wahlsteen, Torbjörn Tyler
- "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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