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Genus of flowering plants

Selago
Selago spuria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Tribe: Limoselleae
Genus: Selago
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Synonyms
  • Camphorata Fabr. (1759)
  • Kuritis Raf. (1837)
  • Macria (E.Mey.) Spach (1840)
  • Manettia Boehm. (1760), nom. rej.
  • Noltia Eckl. ex Steud. (1841), pro syn.
  • Pechuelia Kuntze (1886)
  • Vormia Adans. (1763)
  • Walafrida E.Mey. (1838)

Selago is a genus of plants in the family Scrophulariaceae, closely related to Scrophularia and Verbascum. It contains around 190 species, mostly in southern Africa, ranging from Kenya and Democratic Republic of the Congo to South Africa, and including Madagascar.

Two species are listed on the IUCN Red List:

References

  1. ^ Selago L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  2. E. Fischer (2004). "Scrophulariaceae". In Joachim W. Kadereit (ed.). Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 7. Springer. pp. 333–432. ISBN 9783540405931.
  3. David J. Mabberley (2008). Mabberley's Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications, and Uses (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787. ISBN 9780521820714.
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