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Leontice

Leontice

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

Species

As of November 2022, Plants of the World Online accepted four 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

Gallery

L. leontopetalum in flower, Israel
L. leontopetalum: developing inflorescence, Kew Gardens
Ripe, bladder-like fruits of L. leontopetalum, Greece
Bladder-like fruits of L. incerta, Baikonur, Kazakhstan

References

^ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 146 (1929).
^ Tropicos, Leontice L.
^ ^a ^b 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
^ "Leontice leontopetalum L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-11-16.

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Leontice: Brief Summary

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Leontice is a group of perennial, tuberous herbs in the Berberidaceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.

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