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Genus of flowering plants For the journal named after this genus see Wulfenia (journal)

Wulfenia
Wulfenia carinthiaca inflorescence
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Tribe: Veroniceae
Genus: Wulfenia
Jacq.

Wulfenia is a plant genus in the family Plantaginaceae. The genus was named after Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728–1805), an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest. It was first described in 1781 by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in . It is also in Tribe Veroniceae.

Its native range is from Central Europe (Italy, Albania, Austria and Yugoslavia) to southern Turkey and northern Lebanon and Syria in western Asia.

Species

Accepted by Plants of the World Online;

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they only list the following species; Wulfenia amherstiana Benth., Wulfenia baldaccii Degen and Wulfenia carinthiaca Jacq.

References

  1. Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Cambridge University Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3. OCLC 348190404. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  2. "Wulfenia". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  3. ^ "Wulfenia Jacq. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  4. "Species of Wulfenia Jacq". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 15 January 2022.

External links

Data related to Wulfenia at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers
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