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.
| Fumana | |
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| Fumana arabica, Mediterranean rockrose | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Cistaceae |
| Genus: | Fumana (Dunal) Spach[1] |
| Species[2] | |
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19; see text | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Species
edit19 species, and several interspecific hybrids, are accepted.[2]
- Fumana aciphylla Boiss.
- Fumana arabica (L.) Spach
- Fumana bonapartei Maire & Petitm.
- Fumana ericoides (Cav.) Gand.
- Fumana fontanesii Clauson ex Pomel
- Fumana fontqueri Güemes
- Fumana grandiflora Jaub. & Spach
- Fumana × heywoodii Rivas Mart. & al.
- Fumana juniperina (Lag. ex Dunal) Pau
- Fumana lacidulemiensis Güemes
- Fumana laevipes (L.) Spach
- Fumana laevis (Cav.) Pau
- Fumana × neverensis Pérez Dacosta
- Fumana oligosperma Boiss. & Kotschy
- Fumana paphlagonica Bornm. & Janch.
- Fumana paradoxa Heywood
- Fumana procumbens (Dunal) Gren. & Godr.
- Fumana × quartensis Pérez Dacosta & Mateo
- Fumana scoparia Pomel
- Fumana thymifolia (L.) Webb
- Fumana trisperma Hub.-Mor. & Reese
- Fumana × vilanovensis Pérez Dacosta
- Fumana viridis (Ten.) Sennen
- Fumana × zafrensis Pérez Dacosta & Mateo
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Fumana (Dunal) Spach". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "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
External links
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Media related to Fumana at Wikimedia Commons- Photo gallery of Fumana species at Flora Italiana
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