Legousia pentagonia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asterales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Campanulids Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Campanulaceae
Subfamilia: Campanuloideae
Genus: Legousia
Species:

Legousia pentagonia (L.) Druce, List Brit. Pl.: 46 (1908) [publ. Jan 1908, reviewed Mar 1908].

Basionym
- Campanula pentagonia L., Sp. Pl.: 169 (1753).
Homotypic
- Prismatocarpus pentagonius (L.) L'Hér., Sert. Angl.: 3 (1789).
- Specularia pentagonia (L.) A.DC., Monogr. Campan.: 344 (1830).
- Legousia pentagonia (L.) Thell., Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 52: 465 (1908), isonym [publ. Apr. 1908]
- Specularia speculum-veneris subsp. pentagonia (L.) Douin in G.E.M.Bonnier, Fl. Ill. France 7: 38 (1924).
- Legousia speculum-veneris subsp. pentagonia (L.) Wahlsteen, Willdenowia 49: 31 (2019).
Heterotypic
- Specularia coa A.DC., Monogr. Campan.: 350 (1830).
  - Campanula coa (A.DC.) D.Dietr., Syn. Pl. 1: 758 (1839).
  - Specularia pentagonia var. coa (A.DC.) Nyman, Consp. Fl. Eur.: 483 (1879).
  - Pentagonia coa (A.DC.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 381 (1891).
- Specularia pentagonia var. pubescens A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 7: 489 (1839).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Northern Europe
  - Norway (casual).
- Regional: Middle Europe
  - Czechoslovakia (casual).
- Regional: Southwestern Europe
  - Corse, France (introduced).
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Bulgaria, Greece, Kriti, Turkey-in-Europe.
- Regional: Eastern Europe
  - Krym, Ukraine.
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Caucasus
  - Transcaucasus (Georgia).
- Regional: Western Asia
  - East Aegean Islands, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria (Lebanon, Syria), Palestine (Israel, Jordan), Turkey.

Druce, G.C. 1908. List of British Plants Containing the Spermophytes, Pteridophyte and Charads Found Either as Natives Or Growing in a Wild State in Britain, Ireland, and the Channel Isles. 104 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hathitrust Google Books (USA) Reference page.
Thellung, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Adventivflora der Schweiz. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 52: 434–473. BHL Reference page.
Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 169. Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Legousia pentagonia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 January 15. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2023. Legousia pentagonia. Published online. Accessed: January 15 2023. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2023. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Legousia pentagonia. Accessed: 15 January 2023.
Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Legousia pentagonia in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2025 Mar 21.