''Echinocodon'' is a genus of plants in the family
Campanulaceae
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants bel ...
. There is only one known species, ''Echinocodon lobophyllus'',
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the
Chinese Province
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of
Hubei
Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...
.
Flora of China v 19 p 528, 刺萼参 ci e shen, ''Echinocodon lobophyllus'' D. Y. Hong, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 22: 183. 1984.
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Campanuloideae
Flora of Hubei
Monotypic Campanulaceae genera
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