Lophospermum
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Lophospermum is a genus in the family Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago L..In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but numerous phylogenetic studies, summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have...

. This genus was traditionally placed in the foxglove family Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family, are a family of flowering plants. The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers with bilateral or rarely radial symmetry. Members of the Scrophulariaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority found in temperate areas, including...

. Owing to new genetic research, however, it is now placed in the vastly expanded family Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago L..In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but numerous phylogenetic studies, summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have...

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Some species are used as ornamental plant
Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...

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Species

  • Lophospermum atrosanguineum
  • Lophospermum breedlovei
  • Lophospermum chiapense
  • Lophospermum erectum
  • Lophospermum erubescens
  • Lophospermum hintonii
  • Lophospermum nubicola
  • Lophospermum physalodes
  • Lophospermum purpurascens
  • Lophospermum purpusii
  • Lophospermum rhodochiton
  • Lophospermum scandens
  • Lophospermum spectabile
  • Lophospermum turneri

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