Fumana
Genus of flowering plants in the rock rose family Cistaceae
| Fumana | |
|---|---|
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| Fumana arabica, Mediterranean rockrose | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Cistaceae |
| Genus: | Fumana (Dunal) Spach[1] |
Fumana (needle sunrose) is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cistaceae. They are small perennial shrubs with five-lobed yellow flowers, native to rocky and sandy soils of Europe and wider Mediterranean region.[2] Fumana shrubs can be procumbent or erect.[3] Leaves tend to be very narrow and are almost always alternate. The genus consists of around 20 named species.[4]
List of species
- Fumana aciphylla
- Fumana arabica
- Fumana bonapartei
- Fumana ericifolia
- Fumana ericoides
- Fumana fontanesii
- Fumana fontqueri
- Fumana grandiflora
- Fumana × heywoodii
- Fumana juniperina
- Fumana lacidulemiensis
- Fumana laevipes
- Fumana laevis
- Fumana oligosperma
- Fumana paphlagonica
- Fumana procumbens
- Fumana scoparia
- Fumana thymifolia
- Fumana trisperma
References
- ^ Klaus Kubitzki; Clemens Bayer, eds. (2003). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 5: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales, and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-42873-2.
- ^ "Sprawling Needle Sunrose".
- ^ Kubitzki, K. (2003), "Introduction to Capparales", Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 7–10, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_3, ISBN 978-3-642-07680-0
- ^ "Fumana". The Plant List.
External links
Media related to Fumana at Wikimedia Commons- Photo gallery of Fumana species at Flora Italiana
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