Biology:Stauracanthus
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Short description: Genus of legumes
| Stauracanthus | |
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| Stauracanthus boivinii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Tribe: | Genisteae |
| Genus: | Stauracanthus Link (1807) |
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Stauracanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes three species of shrubs and suffrutices native to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and northwestern Africa (Algeria and Morocco). They grow in Mediterranean-climate maquis (shrubland), woodland, heaths, and coastal scrub, on sandy or stony alluvium and coastal dunes.[1] It belongs to subfamily Faboideae. It is sometimes treated as part of the genera Genista or Ulex.
Species
Stauracanthus comprises the following species:[1][2][3]
- Stauracanthus boivinii (Webb) Samp.
- Stauracanthus genistoides (Brot.) Samp.
- subsp. aphyllus (Link)Rothm.
- subsp. genistoides (Brot.)Samp.
- subsp. vicentinus (Cout.)Rothm.
- Stauracanthus spectabilis Webb
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stauracanthus Link. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ↑ "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Stauracanthus". Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Stauracanthus&species~. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ USDA; ARS. "GRIN species records of Stauracanthus". National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?11481. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
Wikidata ☰ Q5219847 entry
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