The genus Lomelosia Rafinesque (1836: 95) belongs to the family Caprifoliaceae (Dipsacales) and includes over 50 perennial and annual species diffused around the Mediterranean Sea, with the greatest diversity concentrated in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, and outliers reaching China and Japan. Lomelosia can be distinguished from the other related genera by the presence of eight pits on the epicalyx tube (De Castro & Caputo 2001).
