Leontopodium

Taxobox
name = "Leontopodium"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Edelweiss ("Leontopodium alpinum")
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
tribus = Gnaphalieae [cite journal | url = http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/87/2/259 | title = Phylogeny of South African Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae) based on two noncoding chloroplast sequences | author = Randall J. Bayer, Christopher F. Puttock, and Scot A. Kelchner | journal = American Journal of Botany | year = 2000 | volume = 87 | pages = 259–272 | doi = 10.2307/2656914 | pmid = 10675314]
genus = "Leontopodium"

"Leontopodium" is a genus of plants in the daisy family, which includes edelweiss ("Leontopodium alpinum" [cite web | url = http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Edelweiss | title = edelweiss | work = The Free Dictionary by farlex] [cite web | url = http://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-5321/Edelweiss | title = edelweiss | work = Encyclopædia Britannica online] ), a well-known plant from the mountains of Europe. The term edelweiss can, more rarely, refer to other members of the genus. [cite web | url = http://www.nargs.org/potm/potm_jul04.html | title = Plant of the Month: Leontopodium souliei | date = July 2004 | author = Iza Goroff] The genus contains about 30 species, native to Europe and Asia (and perhaps the Americas). [cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=100&taxon_id=117992 | title = Leontopodium | work = Digital Flora of Taiwan] [cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=117992 | title = Leontopodium | work = Flora of Pakistan]

pecies

*"Leontopodium alpinum"
*"Leontopodium andersonii"
*"Leontopodium artemisiifolium"
*"Leontopodium aurantiacum"
*"Leontopodium brachyactis"
*"Leontopodium calocephalum"
*"Leontopodium campestre"
*"Leontopodium chuii"
*"Leontopodium conglobatum"
*"Leontopodium dedekensii"
*"Leontopodium delavayanum"
*"Leontopodium discolor"
*"Leontopodium fangingense"
*"Leontopodium fauriei"
*"Leontopodium forrestianum"
*"Leontopodium franchetii"
*"Leontopodium giraldii"
*"Leontopodium haastioides"
*"Leontopodium haplophylloides"
*"Leontopodium hayachinense"
*"Leontopodium himalayanum"
*"Leontopodium jacotianum"
*"Leontopodium japonicum"
*"Leontopodium leontopodinum"
*"Leontopodium leontopodioides"
*"Leontopodium linearifolium"
*"Leontopodium microphyllum"
*"Leontopodium longifolium"
*"Leontopodium melanolepis"
*"Leontopodium micranthum"
*"Leontopodium monocephalum"
*"Leontopodium muscoides"
*"Leontopodium nanum"
*"Leontopodium niveum"
*"Leontopodium ochroleucum"
*"Leontopodium omeiense"
*"Leontopodium pusillum"
*"Leontopodium roseum"
*"Leontopodium shinanense"
*"Leontopodium sinense"
*"Leontopodium smithianum"
*"Leontopodium souliei"
*"Leontopodium stoechas"
*"Leontopodium stoloniferum"
*"Leontopodium stracheyi"
*"Leontopodium subulatum"
*"Leontopodium villosum"
*"Leontopodium wilsonii"

References