Giant lobelia is a common name for several plants in the genus Lobelia; many of these species are restricted to high altitude, alpine ecosystems. In East African highlands as many as 20 species were listed in 1934 (Bruce).
A selection of species names is below.
Lobelia aberdarica
Lobelia bambuseti
Lobelia bequaertii (Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa)
Lobelia deckenii
Lobelia fenniae East Africa
Lobelia giberroa[1]
Lobelia gregoriana (syn. L. deckenii subsp. keniensis, L. keniensis)
Lobelia lanuriensis East Africa
Lobelia morogoroensis[2]
Lobelia rhynchopetalum
Lobelia stuhlmannii
Lobelia telekii
Lobelia wollastonii
The giant lobelia span Africa, Hawaii, South America, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Phylogenetic analysis strongly supports that this is a monophyletic group.
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^Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, pp. 1324–5. London and New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-439903-7
^Knox, Eric Boyd (1993). Evolution of the Giant Senecios and Giant Lobelias in Eastern Africa. University of Michigan. p. 42. (http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/103434)
^Antonelli, Alexandre (2007). "Higher level phylogeny and evolutionary trends in Campanulaceae subfam. Lobelioideae: Molecular signal overshadows morphology". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.06.015. PMID 18042405.
^Antonelli, A. Have giant lobelias evolved several times independently? Life form shifts and historical biogeography of the cosmopolitan and highly diverse subfamily Lobelioideae (Campanulaceae) . BMC Biol 7, 82 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-82.
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