Santolina
| Santolina | |
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| Santolina chamaecyparissus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Anthemideae |
| Genus: | Santolina Tourn. |
| Type species | |
| Santolina chamaecyparissus L. |
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| Species | |
Santolina is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. Between five and 24 species are accepted by different authorities.[citation needed]
The species are small evergreen shrubs growing to 10–60 cm tall. The leaves are simple and minute in some species, or pinnate, finely divided in other species, and often densely silvery hairy. The flowers are yellow, produced in dense globose capitulae (flowerheads) 1–2 cm diameter on top of slender stems held 10–25 cm above the foliage.[citation needed]
Santolina species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix santolinella (feeds exclusively on S. chamaecyparissus) and the Coleophora case-bearers C. albicella (recorded on S. chamaecyparissus), C. involucrella (feeds exclusively on Santolina spp) and C. santolinella (feeds exclusively on S. chamaecyparissus).[citation needed]
[edit] Selected species
- Santolina adscensionis Maire
- Santolina africana Jord. & Fourr.
- Santolina chamaecyparissus L.
- Santolina elegans DC.
- Santolina oblongifolia Boiss.
- Santolina rosmarinifolia L.
- Santolina virens Green santolina
- Santolina viscosa Lag.
[edit] References
- ^ "Santolina". Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 1996-02-09. http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Santolina. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ a b UniProt. "Genus Santolina". http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/41642. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=10908-1. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Santolina". Euro+Med PlantBase. Free University of Berlin. http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=117415&PTRefFk=7000000. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
[edit] External links
Media related to Santolina at Wikimedia Commons 
Data related to Santolina at Wikispecies
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