Biology:Foleyola

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Short description: Genus of plants

Foleyola
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Foleyola
Maire
Species:
F. billotii
Binomial name
Foleyola billotii
Maire

Foleyola is a monotypic genus belonging to the Brassicaceae family. Its only species is Foleyola billotii native to North Africa in Algeria, Mauritania and Morocco.[1]

Taxonomy

Foleyola billotii was first described by René Maire.[2] The individual flowers have purple petals and are spaced along the inflorescence.[3] Its growth habit is as a shrub. It grows in arid areas. The number of chromosomes is n=16.[4]

References

  1. "Foleyola billotii - type specimens". ITHAKA. https://plants.jstor.org/search?plantName=%22Foleyola+billotii%22&syn=1. Retrieved 11 December 2019. 
  2. Maire, Rene Charles (1925). "Foleyola billotii". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 16: 90. 
  3. Peltier, Jean-Paul. "Foleyola billotii". https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/brassicaceae/foleyola-billotii. Retrieved 11 December 2019. 
  4. Warwick, S I; Black, L D; Anderson, J K (1993). Warwick, S I; Anderson, J K. eds. Chromosome numbers in the tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae). Guide to the Wild Germplasm of Brassica and Allied Crops. Part II. Chromosome Numbers in the Tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae). Techn. Bull.. Ottawa: Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada. pp. 4 - 10. https://archive.org/details/guidetowildgerm199315warw. 

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