Limosella
Limosella | |
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Limosella aquatica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
Genus: | Limosella L. |
Species | |
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Limosella is a genus of flowering plants known as mudworts. These are annual, largely aquatic plants, found in muddy areas worldwide. Its phylogeny and biogeography are inferred from molecular data[1]
Selected species:
- Limosella acaulis - Owyhee mudwort
- Limosella aquatica - water mudwort
- Limosella australis - Welsh mudwort
- Limosella capensis
- Limosella inflata
- Limosella longiflora
- Limosella major
- Limosella pubiflora - Chiricahua Mountain mudwort
References
- ↑ Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfod, B. Oxelman, A.M. Muasya (2016) Molecular phylogeny of the cosmopolitan aquatic plant genus Limosella (Scrophulariaceae) with a particular focus on the origin of the Australasian L. curdieana. Journal of Plant Research doi: 10.1007/s10265-016-0872-6
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