Legenere limosa

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Campanulaceae

The Campanulaceae are herbs, shrubs , or rarely small trees comprising about 70 genera and 2,000 species usually with milky sap . The leaves are nearly always alternate and simple ; stipules are absent The flowers are bisexual , and actinomorphic in the subfamily Campanuloideae but zygomorphic in the Lobelioideae. The perianth and androecium are usually 5-merous, sometimes 3-10-merous. The calyx and corolla each consist of connate segments. The stamens equal the number of corolla lobes , alternate with them, and are adnate to the extreme base of the corolla or epigynous zone or more commonly arise from the annular epigynous nectary disk; the filaments are distinct and the anthers are introrse and only weakly connivent around the style in the Campanuloideae but in the lobelioideae the introrse anthers and also often the filaments are firmly connate. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of usually 2 carpels and locules with numerous axile ovules in the subfamily Lobelioideae but usually consists of 3-5 carpels and locules with numerous axile ovules in the subfamily Campanuloideae. The single style commonly has a number of lobes or stigmas equal to the number of carpels. The ovary is nearly always inferior and is generally crowned with an epigynous annular nectary disk. The fruit is usually a capsule or berry. -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Howellia limosa Greene

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Legenere

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

L. limosa (False Venus' Looking Glass)

More Info

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 114.
• An introduction to California plant life Berkeley: University of California Press, [c1974] url p. 8.

Notes

Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 03, 2008:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2656655
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-34584
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13748304
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:142761-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 34584
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 137042-2
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDCAM0C010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LELI
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 44640

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