Santolina

Taxobox

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image_width = 260px
image_caption = "Santolina chamaecyparissus"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
tribus = Anthemideae
genus = "Santolina"
genus_authority = Tourn.
type_species = "Santolina chamaecyparissus" L.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text. Source: ING,cite web
url = http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Santolina
title = "Santolina"
accessdate = 2008-06-26
date = 1996-02-09
format = HTML
work = Index Nominum Genericorum
publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy] UniProtcite web
url = http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/41642
title = Genus Santolina
accessdate = 2008-06-27
author = UniProt
authorlink = UniProt
format = HTML] IPNIIPNI
id = 10908-1
date = 2008-06-27]

"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.Fact|date=June 2008

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.Fact|date=June 2008

"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").Fact|date=June 2008

elected species

*"Santolina adscensionis" Maire
*"Santolina africana" Jord. & Fourr.
*"Santolina chamaecyparissus" L.
*"Santolina elegans" DC.
*"Santolina oblongifolia" Boiss.
*"Santolina rosmarinifolia" L.
*"Santolina viscosa" Lag.Source: E+M,cite web
url = http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=117415&PTRefFk=7000000
title = Details for: "Santolina"
accessdate = 2008-06-27
author = Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
authorlink = Botanical Garden in Berlin
format = HTML
work = Euro+Med PlantBase
publisher = Free University of Berlin ] UniProt

References

External links

* [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Santolina&SPECIES_XREF=&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK=species Flora Europaea: "Santolina"]