Ligularia

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Ligularia
Ligularia sibirica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
(unranked) Euasterids II
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Ligularia
Cass. (1816)
Type species
L. sibirica
Species

See text
Synonyms

Ligularia H. A. Duval
Sekika Mediku
Erythrochaete Siebold & Zucc.
Senecillis Gaertn.
Sources: ING[1] BGM,[2] GRIN[3]
Ligularia sibirica
Ligularia sibirica

Ligularia, Leopard Plant, is a genus of "Old World" perennial plants or herbs resembling groundsel of the family Asteraceae.[4] Ligularias are rather tall perennial herbaceous plants occurring mostly in damp places in Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of them are cultivated as ornamentals.


[edit] Some species

  • Ligularia carpathica (Schott) Pojark.
  • Ligularia dentata (A. Gray) H. Hara
  • Ligularia dolichobotrys Diels
  • Ligularia fischeri Turcz.
  • Ligularia hodgsonii Hook.
  • Ligularia intermedia Nakai
  • Ligularia kingiana (W. W. Sm.) R. Mathur
  • Ligularia macrophylla (Ledeb.) DC.
  • Ligularia mortonii (C. B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Ligularia pachycarpa (C. B. Clarke ex Hook. f.) Kitam. ex H. Hara
  • Ligularia przewalskii (Maxim.) Diels
  • Ligularia retusa DC.
  • Ligularia schmidtii (Maxim.) Makino
  • Ligularia sibirica (L.) Cass.
  • Ligularia splendens (H. Lév. & Vaniot) Nakai
  • Ligularia stenocephala (Maxim.) Matsum. & Koidz.
  • Ligularia stenoglossa (Franch.) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Ligularia veitchiana (Hemsl.) Greenm.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ligularia (HTML). Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy (2006-02-20). Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  2. ^ Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. Details for: Ligularia (HTML). Euro+Med PlantBase. Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  3. ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2007-01-04). Genus: Ligularia Cass. (HTML). Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  4. ^ This article incorporates text from the public domain 1913 Webster's Dictionary.

[edit] External links

The Wiktionary definition of Ligularia.

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