Musschia
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Musschia aurea (Madeira, Portugal).jpg
|image_caption = Musschia aurea
|taxon = Musschia
|authority = Dumort. (1822)
|type_species = Musschia aurea
|type_species_authority = (L.f.) Dumort.
|range_map = Musschia aurea, M. wollastonii e M. isambertoi - Arquipelago da Madeira (Portugal).jpg
|range_map_caption = Distribution of the genus: M. isambertoi (green), M. wollastonii (red), M. aurea (yellow){{cite journal |last1=Menezes de Sequeira |first1=Miguel |last2=Jardim |first2=Roberto |last3=Silva |first3=Magda |last4=Carvalho |first4=Lígia |title=Musschia isambertoi M. Seq., R. Jardim, M. Silva & L. Carvalho (Campanulaceae), a new species from the Madeira Archipelago (Portugal) |journal=Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid |date=30 December 2007 |volume=64 |issue=2 |pages=135–146 |doi=10.3989/AJBM.2007.V64.I2.168 |url=https://rjb.revistas.csic.es/index.php/rjb/article/view/168/176 |access-date=27 August 2022|doi-access=free |hdl=10400.13/4220 |hdl-access=free }}
|synonyms =
- Benaurea Raf. (1837)
- Chrysangia Link (1829)
}}
Musschia is a genus of plants in the family Campanulaceae. It contains three known species, all endemic to the Madeira Archipelago in the eastern North Atlantic, part of the Republic of Portugal.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=354534 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Lammers, T.G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The genus is named in honour of Jean-Henri Mussche (1765-1834), the head gardener of the botanical garden in Ghent.{{efn|Many sources claim he was the director, but this is incorrect. Director was Bernard Coppens and he was "hortulanus" or head gardener.}}{{cite book |last1=Quattrocchi |first1=Umberto |title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology |date=17 November 1999 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=0367447517 |page=1750 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&dq=Musschia+mussche+ghent+Dumort&pg=PA1750 |access-date=14 May 2021}}
- Musschia aurea (L.f.) Dumort. - Madeira Island
- Musschia isambertoi M.Seq., R.Jardim, Magda Silva & L.Carvalho - Desertas Islands
- Musschia wollastonii Lowe - Madeira Island
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