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Fumana

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Fumana
Fumana arabica, Mediterranean rockrose
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Cistaceae
Genus: Fumana
(Dunal) Spach[1]
Species[2]

19; see text

Synonyms[2]
  • Fumanopsis Pomel (1860)
  • Pomelina (Maire) Güemes & Raynaud (1992)

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.[3] Fumana shrubs can be procumbent or erect.[4] Leaves tend to be very narrow and are almost always alternate.

Species

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19 species, and several interspecific hybrids, are accepted.[2]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c "Fumana (Dunal) Spach". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Sprawling Needle Sunrose".
  4. ^ 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
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