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Lomelosia
Lomelosia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae and the subfamily of Dipsacoideae.
The genus includes over 50-63, perennial and annual species, diffused around the Mediterranean Sea, with the greatest diversity of species concentrated in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (including the Arabian Peninsula), and also has a few species reaching as far east as China.
Successful propagation in various species of Lomelosia has been reported both via seed growing and by vegetative methods. Propagation with cuttings for species Lomelosia hymettia was carried out using Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA, hormone rooting agent) with results to a high rate of rooting (92.5–100%) during autumn, compared to 50–67.5% during the spring (Vlachou et al., 2019). In-vitro propagation has also been successfully employed for Lomelosia argentea (L.) Greuter & Burdet (Panayotova et al., 2008).
Lomelosia is described as an Old World genus and it is distributed from the Mediterranean region to Central Asia.
Lomelosia hymettia is considered as a medicinal plant (Grigoriadou et al., 2019), with antimicrobial properties (Christopoulou et al., 2008).
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