Legousia pentagonia

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Legousia pentagonia (L.) Druce, List Brit. Pl.: 46. (1908) [publ. Jan 1908, reviewed Mar 1908].

Basionym
- Campanula pentagonia L., Sp. Pl.: 169 (1753).
Homotypic
- Prismatocarpus pentagonius (L.) L'Hér., Sert. Angl.: 3 (1789).
- Specularia pentagonia (L.) A.DC., Monogr. Campan.: 344 (1830).
- Legousia pentagonia (L.) Thell., Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 52: 465 (1908), isonym [IPNI, POWO: "46:"; publ. Apr. 1908]
- Specularia speculum-veneris subsp. pentagonia (L.) Douin in G.E.M.Bonnier, Fl. Ill. France 7: 38 (1924).
- Legousia speculum-veneris subsp. pentagonia (L.) Wahlsteen, Willdenowia 49: 31 (2019).
Heterotypic
- Specularia coa A.DC., Monogr. Campan.: 350 (1830).
  - Campanula coa (A.DC.) D.Dietr., Syn. Pl. 1: 758 (1839).
  - Specularia pentagonia var. coa (A.DC.) Nyman, Consp. Fl. Eur.: 483 (1879).
  - Pentagonia coa (A.DC.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 381 (1891).
- Specularia pentagonia var. pubescens A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 7: 489 (1839).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Middle Europe
  - Czechoslovakia (introduced).
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Bulgaria, Greece, Kriti, Turkey-in-Europe.
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Caucasus
  - Transcaucasus.
- Regional: Western Asia
  - East Aegean Islands, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey.

Druce, G.C. 1908. List of British Plants Containing the Spermophytes, Pteridophyte and Charads Found Either as Natives Or Growing in a Wild State in Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Isles. 104 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hathitrust Google Books (USA) Reference page.
Thellung, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Adventivflora der Schweiz. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 52: 434–473. BHL Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Legousia pentagonia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 January 15. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2023. Legousia pentagonia. Published online. Accessed: January 15 2023.
Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Legousia pentagonia. Accessed: 15 January 2023.
Hassler, M. 2023. Legousia pentagonia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2023. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2023 January 15. Reference page.

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