Leontice

Genus of flowering plants belonging to the barberry family

Leontice

Leontice leontopetalum
Alpine House, Kew Gardens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Order:  | Ranunculales
Family:  | Berberidaceae
Genus:  | Leontice

Type species
Leontice leontopetalum

L.[1][2]

Synonyms[3]

Leontopetalon Miller.

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

## Species[edit]

As of November 2022[update], 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

1. ^ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 146 (1929).
2. ^ Tropicos, Leontice L.
3. ^ a b Flora of China Vol. 19 Page 800 囊果草属 nang guo cao shu Leontice Linnaeus
4. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 312 in Latin
5. ^ 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
6. ^ "Leontice leontopetalum L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-11-16.

## External links[edit]

* Tela Botanica, Le réseau de la botanique francophone, Leontice leontopetalum L. in French
* Cretan Flora, Leontice leontopetalum L.
* Flowers in Israel, Leontice leontopetalum L.
* Red Book, endangered species, Armenia, Leontice armeniaca Boiv.
* Montarano Nature Photography, Leontice ewersmanni Bunge, photo from Uzbekistan

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Genera of Berberidaceae

* Achlys
* Berberis
* Bongardia
* Caulophyllum
* Diphylleia
* Dysosma
* Epimedium
* Gymnospermium
* Jeffersonia
* Leontice
* Mahonia
* Nandina
* Podophyllum
* Ranzania
* Vancouveria

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q2077105
* Wikispecies: Leontice
* APDB: 192037
* APNI: 203444
* BOLD: 615511
* CoL: 5CBQ
* EPPO: 1LETG
* FNA: 117986
* FoC: 117986
* GBIF: 7300296
* GRIN: 6651
* iNaturalist: 486596
* IPNI: 3954-1
* IRMNG: 1011933
* NCBI: 168832
* Open Tree of Life: 22668
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328525-2
* Tropicos: 40003942
* WFO: wfo-4000021028

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