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Loeselia

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Loeselia
Loeselia mexicana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Polemoniaceae
Subfamily: Polemonioideae
Tribe: Loeselieae
Genus: Loeselia
L.[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Hoitzia Juss.

Loeselia is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family Polemoniaceae, native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, Columbia and Venezuela. A number of species are found only in the Balsas Depression of southwestern Mexico.[3]

Species

Currently accepted species include:[2]

References

  1. ^ Sp. Pl.: 628 (1753)
  2. ^ a b "Loeselia L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  3. ^ Porter, J. Mark; Steinmann, Victor W. (2009). "Two New Loeselia (Polemoniaceae) Species from Michoacán, Mexico". Systematic Botany. 34 (4): 730–736. doi:10.1600/036364409790139628. S2CID 85899542.