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Santolina

Santolina chamaecyparissus

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Anthemideae
Genus:	Santolina Tourn.

Type species

Santolina chamaecyparissus L.

Species

See text.
Source: ING,^[1] UniProt^[2] IPNI^[3]

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}

Selected species

Source: E+M,^[4] UniProt^[2]

References

^ "Santolina" (HTML). Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy (1996-02-09). Retrieved on 2008-06-26.
^ ^a ^b UniProt. "Genus Santolina" (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-06-27.
^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved on 2008-06-27.
^ Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Santolina" (HTML). Euro+Med PlantBase. Free University of Berlin. Retrieved on 2008-06-27.

External links

Media related to Santolina at Wikimedia Commons.
Information related to Santolina from Wikispecies.
Flora Europaea: Santolina

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