Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Bristly Langloisia, Great Basin Langloisia, Lilac Sunbonnet, Moth Langloisia
Description
Family Polemoniaceae
Herbs annual
or perennial
, rarely subshrubs
or vines
. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile to petiolate
, simple
, pinnatifid
to palmately lobed
, or compound
. Inflorescences determinate, corymbose
, paniculate
, or capitate, or flowers solitary. Flowers (4- or) 5-merous. Calyx gamosepalous
, cylindric
to campanulate
; tube
herbaceous throughout and papery
in fruit or with herbaceous midveins separated by translucent
membranes
distended
or ruptured in fruit; lobes
often scarious
margined
. Corolla gamopetalous, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic, rotate to funnelform
or salverform
; lobes overlapping in bud. Stamens inserted
at same or different levels on corolla at base
, alternate with corolla lobes, exserted to included
; filaments
equal to unequal, filiform
. Ovary superior, (2- or) 3-locular, placentation axile
; ovules 1 to many per locule. Style 1; stigma lobes (2 or) 3. Fruit a capsule. Seeds globose
, ovoid
, or fusiform
, sometimes winged
, often sticky when wet.
Nineteen genera and 320-350 species: North and South America, a few species native to temperate
Asia and Europe; one genus, Polemonium, and three species in China. Cobraea scandens Cavanilles (a perennial vine with violet campanulate corollas ca.
5 cm) and three species of Phlox, P. drummondii Hooker, P. paniculata Linnaeus, and P. subulata Linnaeus (herbs with white to red, salverform corollas and unequally inserted stamens), are cultivated in China.[1]
Physical Description
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Annual
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Solananae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Ericales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Polemoniaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- phlox
- Subfamily:
Polemonioideae
()
- Tribe:
Gilieae
()
- Genus:
Langloisia
()
- E.L. Greene, 1896
- Specific epithet:
setosissima
- (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene
- Botanical name: - Langloisia setosissima (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene
- Specific epithet:
setosissima
- (Torr. & A.Gray) Greene
- Genus:
Langloisia
(
- Tribe:
Gilieae
(
- Subfamily:
Polemonioideae
(
- Family:
Polemoniaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Basionym
: Polemoniaceae Navarretia setosissima Torr. & A.Gray
Basionym author: (Torr. & A.Gray)
Basionym: Polemoniaceae Navarretia setosissima Torr. & A.Gray
Basionym author: (Torr. & A.Gray)
Basionym: Polemoniaceae Navarretia setosissima Torr. & A.Gray
Basionym author: (Torr. & A.Gray)
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Langloisia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. setosissima (Bristly Langloisia) · L. setosissima punctata (Great Basin Langloisia) · L. setosissima setosissima (Bristly Langloisia) · L. setosissima subsp. punctata (Great Basin Langloisia)
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Further Reading
- A flora of California, by Willis Linn Jepson. San Francisco, Calif., Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, 1909- url p. 219, p. 220.
- A review of Californian Polemoniaceae. With eleven plates. By Jessie Milliken. Berkeley, The University Press[1904] url p. 44.
- An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. Stanford University, Stanford University Press, 1923-[60] url p. 453, p. 458.
- Flora of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and neighboring parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and British Columbia, by P.A. Rydberg. .. New York, The author, 1922. url p. 697.
- Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1987 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 463.
- Key to the Rocky Mountain flora. Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and British Columbia. New York, [c1919] url .
- Leaflets of western botany. San Fransisco:[J. T. Howell], 1932-1966. url p. 184, p. 297.
- Muhlenbergia. Chico, Calif. [etc] url p. 231.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 336.
- Rydberg, P. A. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and neighboring parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, and British Columbia /by P. A. Rydberg... 1917 New York: The author, 1917. url p. 697.
- The Great Basin naturalist. 44 1984 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 143, p. 167, p. 174, p. 40, p. 96, p. 99.
- The effects of water development upon populations of Gambel's Quail in southwestern Utah / [Salt Lake City]: Utah State Department of Fish and Game, 1964. url p. 133, p. 81.
- Fang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. 1979. Polemoniaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(1): 155-160.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 03, 2008:
- Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
- Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
- Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
- Utah Valley State College
- , Utah Valley State College Herbarium
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2654148
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-31228
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13745770
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:689317-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 31228
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 135024-2
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDPLM07040
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LASE3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 45220
Footnotes
- Ruizheng Fang & Dieter H. Wilkins "Polemoniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 326. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
