Globularia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Plantaginaceae
Tribus: Globularieae
Genus: Globularia
Species

G. alypum – G. amygdalifolia – G. anatolica – G. arabica – G. ascanii – G. bisnagarica – G. cordifolia – G. davisiana – G. dumulosa – G. fuxeensis – G. hedgei – G. incanescens – G. linifolia – G. liouvillei – G. majoricensis – G. meridionalis – G. nainii – G. neapolitana – G. nudicaulis – G. orientalis – G. repens – G. salicina – G. sarcophylla – G. sintenisii – G. spinosa – G. stygia – G. trichosantha – G. vulgaris
Nothospecies

G. × indubia – G. × losae – G. × montiberica

G. alypum - - G. cordifolia - - G. nudicaulis - G. repens - G. spinosa - G. trichosantha

Name

Globularia Tourn. ex L., Sp. Pl. 1: 95 (1753); Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 42 (1754).

Type species: Globularia vulgaris L., Sp. Pl. 1: 95. (1753) (Lectotype, designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 123 (1929))

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Abolaria Neck., Elem. Bot. 1: 105 (1790).
Alypum Fisch., Cat. Jard. Gorenki, ed. 2: 19 (1812).
Carradoria A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 12: 610 (1848).
Type species: Carradoria incanescens (Viv.) A.DC.
Lytanthus Wettst., Bull. Herb. Boissier 3: 271 (1895).
Type species: non design.
× Lytanthobularia Svent., Addit. Fl. Canar. 1: 57 (1960).
Globularia L. × Lytanthus Wettst.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Europe
Northern Europe
Sweden.
Middle Europe
Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland.
Southwestern Europe
Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain.
Southeastern Europe
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia.
Eastern Europe
Krym, Central European Russia, East European Russia, South European Russia.
Africa
Northern Africa'
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara.
Macaronesia
Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira.
West Tropical Africa
Mauritania.
Northeast Tropical Africa'
Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan.
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia
Kazakhstan.
Caucasus'
North Caucasus, Transcaucasus.
Western Asia
East Aegean Islands, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey.
Arabian Peninsula'
Yemen.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 95. Reference page.
Linnaeus, C. 1754. Genera Plantarum, ed. 5: 42. Reference page.

Additional references

Hitchcock, A.S. & Green, M.L. 1929. Standard species of Linnaean genera of Phanerogamae (1753–1754). pp. 111–195. In: Sprague, T.A. (ed.): International Botanical Congress. Cambridge (England), 1930. Nomenclature. Proposals by British Botanists. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. Biblioteca Digital Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. 2020. Globularia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2020 June 21. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Globularia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 June 21. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Globularia. Published online. Accessed: 21 June 2020. Reference page.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Globularia in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2022 22 June.

Vernacular names
العربية: عينون
català: Globulària
čeština: koulenka
dansk: Kugleblomst
Deutsch: Kugelblumen
Esperanto: Globulario
فارسی: گل توپی
suomi: Sinipallot
français: Globulaire
hornjoserbsce: Kulenka
lietuvių: Krekesiniai
polski: Kulnik
slovenčina: guľôčka
svenska: Bergskrabbor

Globularia is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae,[1] native to central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. They are dense low evergreen mat-forming perennials or subshrubs, with leathery oval leaves 1–10 cm long. The flowers are produced in dense inflorescences (capitula) held above the plant on a 1–30 cm tall stem; the capitula is 1–3 cm in diameter, with numerous tightly packed purple, violet, pink or white flowers.[2]

Globularia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora virgatella.

Several members of the genus, such as Globularia cordifolia and Globularia punctata, are cultivated and sold for garden use.

Under the old Cronquist system of plant classification, they were treated in their own family, Globulariaceae, but genetic evidence has shown that the genus belongs in the family Plantaginaceae.

Most species are known as globe daisies or globularias.
Species

Species include:

Globularia alypum
Globularia amygdalifolia
Globularia ascanii
Globularia bisnagarica
Globularia cordifolia
Globularia dumulosa
Globularia greuteri[3]
Globularia incanescens
Globularia meridionalis
Globularia nudicaulis
Globularia orientalis
Globularia repens
Globularia salicina
Globularia sarcophylla
Globularia stygia
Globularia trichosantha
Globularia vulgaris

References

Globularia Linnaeus, 1753. Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 25 January 2019.
RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
Mateos, M. A. and B. Valdés. (2006). A new species of Globularia (Globulariaceae) from the Talassemtane National Park, N. Morocco. Willdenowia Bd. 36, H. 1, Special Issue: Festschrift Werner Greuter. 409-12.