Trachelium (plant)

Genus of flowering plants

Trachelium
Trachelium caeruleum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Subfamily: Campanuloideae
Genus: Trachelium
Tourn. ex L. (1753)
Species

3, see text

Trachelium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. It includes two species and one natural hybrid native to Macaronesia and the western and central Mediterranean.[1]

Trachelium caeruleum is cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Species

  • Trachelium caeruleum L. – blue throatwort
  • Trachelium × halteratum (Bianca ex Ces., Pass. & Gibelli) Sandwith
  • Trachelium lanceolatum Guss.

Formerly placed here

  • Campanula asperuloides (Boiss. & Orph.) Harms (as Trachelium asperuloides Boiss. & Orph.)[2]
  • Campanula jacquinii (Sieber) A.DC. (as Trachelium jacquinii (Sieber) Boiss.)[2]

References

  1. ^ "Trachelium Tourn. ex L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Meric, C., et al. (2008). Nuclear DNA content of an endemic taxon from Turkey, Trachelium jacquinii (Sieber) Boiss. subsp. dalgiciorum N. Ozhatay and Dane (Campanulaceae). Biotechnology 7(3), 595-98.
Taxon identifiers
Trachelium
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