''Loeselia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family
Polemoniaceae
The Polemoniaceae (Jacob's-ladder or phlox family) are a family of flowering plants consisting of about 27 genera with 270–400 species of annuals and perennials native to the Northern Hemisphere and South America, with the center of diversity ...
, 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.
It was named for German botanist
Johannes Loesel
Johannes Loesel (26 August 1607 – 30 March 1655) was a German botanist and physician who was an expert on the natural flora of Prussia.
Biography
Loesel was born in Brandenberg, Prussia (now Ushakovo, Russia) on 26 August 1607. He ear ...
by
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
in 1753.
Species
Currently accepted species include:
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Loeselia amplectens''
Benth.
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Loeselia campechiana''
C.Gut.Báez & Duno
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Loeselia ciliata''
L.
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Loeselia coerulea''
(Cav.) G.Don
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Loeselia cordifolia''
Hemsl. & Rose
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Loeselia glandulosa''
(Cav.) G.Don
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Loeselia grandiflora''
Standl.
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Loeselia greggii''
S.Watson
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Loeselia hintoniorum''
B.L.Turner
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Loeselia mexicana''
(Lam.) Brand
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Loeselia pumila''
(M.Martens & Galeotti) Walp.
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Loeselia purpusii''
Brandegee
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Loeselia rupestris''
Benth.
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Loeselia rzedowskii
''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 ...
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McVaugh
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Loeselia spectabilis''
J.M.Porter & V.W.Steinm.
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Loeselia tancitaroensis''
J.M.Porter & V.W.Steinm.
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q13420312
Polemoniaceae
Polemoniaceae genera