Fumana

Fumana (needle sunrose) is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cistaceae. They are small perennial shrubs with five-lobed yellow flowers, native to rocky and sandy soils of Europe and wider Mediterranean region.[2] Fumana shrubs can be procumbent or erect.[3] Leaves tend to be very narrow and are almost always alternate. The genus consists of around 20 named species.[4]

Fumana
Fumana arabica, Mediterranean rockrose
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Cistaceae
Genus: Fumana
(Dunal) Spach[1]

List of species
  • Fumana aciphylla
  • Fumana arabica
  • Fumana bonapartei
  • Fumana ericifolia
  • Fumana ericoides
  • Fumana fontanesii
  • Fumana fontqueri
  • Fumana grandiflora
  • Fumana × heywoodii
  • Fumana juniperina
  • Fumana lacidulemiensis
  • Fumana laevipes
  • Fumana laevis
  • Fumana oligosperma
  • Fumana paphlagonica
  • Fumana procumbens—Sprawling Needle Sunrose
  • Fumana scoparia
  • Fumana thymifolia
  • Fumana trisperma

References
  1. Klaus Kubitzki, Clemens Bayer (Ed.) (2003). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 5: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales, and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-42873-2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. "Sprawling Needle Sunrose".
  3. Kubitzki, K. (2003), "Introduction to Capparales", Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 7–10, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_3, ISBN 9783642076800
  4. "Fumana". The Plant List.


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