Giant lobelia

Giant lobelia and Senecio plants in Mt Kenya.

Giant lobelia is a common name for several plants in the genus Lobelia and may refer to:

  • Lobelia aberdarica
  • Lobelia bambuseti
  • Lobelia deckenii
  • Lobelia giberroa[1]
  • Lobelia gregoriana (syn. L. deckenii subsp. keniensis, L. keniensis)
  • Lobelia morogoroensis[2]
  • Lobelia rhynchopetalum
  • Lobelia telekii

The giant lobelia span Africa, Hawaii, South America, French Polynesia, and Southeast Asia. Phylogenetic analysis strongly supports that this is a monophyletic group. [3]

References

  1. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, pp. 1324–5. London and New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-439903-7
  2. ^ Knox, Eric Boyd (1993). Evolution of the Giant Senecios and Giant Lobelias in Eastern Africa. University of Michigan. p. 42. (http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/103434)
  3. ^ Antonelli, Alexandre (2007). "Higher level phylogeny and evolutionary trends in Campanulaceae subfam. Lobelioideae: Molecular signal overshadows morphology". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.06.015. PMID 18042405.
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