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Fumana
Fumana arabica, Mediterranean rockrose
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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

References

  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. ^ "Sprawling Needle Sunrose".
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "Fumana". The Plant List.

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