Leucanthemum ligusticum Melai & Marchetti & Bernardello & Peruzzi 2012
Creators: name: Melai, Martina
name: Marchetti, Dino
name: Bernardello, Remo
name: Peruzzi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Leucanthemum
Leucanthemum ligusticum

description: Key to Leucanthemum ligusticum and related diploid taxa   
1. Basal leaves entire (at most with conspicuous lobes and teeth).................................................................................. 2.  
- Basal leaves dissected.................................................................................................................................................. 3.  
 2. Cypselae less than 2 mm long, those of ray florets with scarious pappus at most half of the fruit length (widespread range) ................................................................................................................................... Leucanthemum vulgare s.l.   
 - Cypselae more than 2 mm long, those of ray florets with scarious pappus more or less equalling the fruit length (southern Italy) ..................................................................................................................... Leucanthemum laciniatum   
 3. Phyllaries with pale or light brown margins, basal leaves rarely pinnatifid (northeastern Spain)................................. ......................................................................................................................... Leucanthemum vulgare subsp. pujiulae   
3. Phyllaries with brown margins, basal leaves pinnatifid.............................................................................................. 4.  
 4. Teeth of basal leaves ≤ 2 mm long, plants at most 40(50) cm tall, growing above 1000 m a.s.l. (northern Spain)........................................................................................................................ Leucanthemum gaudinii subsp. cantabricum   
4. Teeth of basal leaves generally ≥ (1.8) 2 mm, plants up to 100 cm tall, growing under 1000 m a.s.l........................ 5.  
 5. Basal leaves (9) 10–17.5 mm wide, with (12)13–16(17) teeth (northeastern Spain and central and southern France).. ......................................................................................................................................... Leucanthemum monspeliense   
- Basal leaves (18)22–41(58) mm wide, with (14)22–72(78) teeth............................................................................... 6.  
 6. Lower cauline leaves with petioles (13)16–21(22) mm and teeth (2.7) 2.8–4.3 mm long, disk florets (3.1)3.8–4.6(5.0) mm long (northwestern Spain, Galicia and Asturias) ............................. Leucanthemum pluriflorum   
 - Lower cauline leaves with petioles (15)20–41(49) mm and teeth (1)1.5–2.7(3) mm long, disk florets less than 3 mm long (northwestern Italy) ....................................................................................................... Leucanthemum ligusticum
description: Published as part of Melai, Martina, Marchetti, Dino, Bernardello, Remo & Peruzzi, Lorenzo, 2012, A new diploid species of Leucanthemum (Asteraceae, Anthemideae) from Liguria (northwestern Italy), pp. 27-37 in Phytotaxa 66 (1) on pages 31-33, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.66.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5065874