Selago

Selago
Selago spuria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Selago
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Selago is a genus of plant in family Scrophulariaceae, closely related to Scrophularia and Verbascum.[1] It contains around 190 species, mostly in southern Africa;[2] two are listed on the IUCN Red List:

References

  1. E. Fischer (2004). "Scrophulariaceae". In Joachim W. Kadereit. Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7. Springer. pp. 333–432. ISBN 9783540405931.
  2. 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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