Leontice

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Berberidaceae
Subfamilia: Nandinoideae
Genus: Leontice
Species: L. incerta – L. leontopetalum
Source(s) of checklist:

Hassler, M. 2019. Leontice. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 24. Reference page.

Name

Leontice L., 1753

Type species: Leontice leontopetalum L. LT designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 146 (1929).

References

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 312. Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Leontice. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 24. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Leontice. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 24 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Leontice in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 24. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Leontice. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 24.

Vernacular names
հայերեն: Առյուծաճանկ, առյուծաթաթ

Leontice is a group of perennial, tuberous herbs in the Berberidaceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.[4][3][5]
Accepted species[6]

Leontice armeniaca Belanger - Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon
Leontice ewersmanni Bunge - Central Asia
Leontice incerta Pall.- Xinjiang, Kazakhstan
Leontice leontopetalum L. - eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia

References

lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 146 (1929).
Tropicos, Leontice L.
Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 800 囊果草属 nang guo cao shu Leontice Linnaeus
Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 312 in Latin
Gabriele Gresser, Peter Bachmann, Ludger Witte, F.-C. Czygan. 1993. Distribution and taxonomic significance of quinolizidine alkaloids in Leontice leontopetalum and L. ewersmannii (Berberidaceae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 21: 679–685
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