Litosanthes

Litosanthes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Lasiantheae
Genus: Litosanthes
Blume 1823
Type species
Litosanthes biflora
Blume
Species

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Litosanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. Most botanists do not recognize it as separate from Lasianthus.[1] Molecular phylogenetic studies have not yet determined whether Litosanthes is embedded within Lasianthus or separate from it.[2]

Species

Litosanthes contains the following species, but this list may be incomplete or contain synonyms.

References

  1. Mohan G. Gagnopadhyay and T. Chakrabarty. 1992. "A note on the status of Litosanthes Bl. (Rubiaceae)". Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 16(2):337-338.
  2. Long-Qian Xiao and Hua Zhu. 2007. "Paraphyly and phylogenetic relationships in Lasianthus (Rubiaceae) inferred from chloroplast rps16 data". Botanical Studies 48(2):227-232.
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