''Limosella'' is a genus of flowering plants known as mudworts. These are annual, largely
aquatic plant
Aquatic plants, also referred to as hydrophytes, are vascular plants and Non-vascular plant, non-vascular plants that have adapted to live in aquatic ecosystem, aquatic environments (marine ecosystem, saltwater or freshwater ecosystem, freshwater ...
s, found in muddy areas worldwide. Its phylogeny and biogeography are inferred from molecular data.
[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
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Species
16 species are accepted.[
*'' Limosella acaulis'' - Owyhee mudwort
*'' Limosella africana''
*'']Limosella aquatica
''Limosella aquatica'' is a widespread species of flowering plant in the Scrophulariaceae, figwort family known by the common name water mudwort. It is native to much of the Temperateness, temperate world, where it grows in many types of wet hab ...
'' - water mudwort
*''Limosella australis
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
'' - Welsh mudwort
*'' Limosella capensis''
*'' Limosella curdieana''
*'' Limosella grandiflora''
*''Limosella granitica
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella inflata
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella longiflora
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella macrantha
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella major
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella pretoriensis
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella purpurea
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella tenella
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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*''Limosella vesiculosa
''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.Ito, Y., Nr. Tanaka, D.C. Albach, A.S. Barfo ...
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References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
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Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae genera
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus