Biology:Fluminaria

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Short description: Genus of Asteraceae plants

Fluminaria
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Fluminaria pinifolia at the Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Gnaphalieae
Genus: Fluminaria
N.G.Bergh[1]
Species:
F. pinifolia
Binomial name
Fluminaria pinifolia
(N.E.Br.) N.G.Bergh[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Athrixia pinifolia N.E.Br.
  • Macowania pinifolia (N.E.Br.) Kroner

Fluminaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Fluminaria pinifolia, native to Lesotho, and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.[3][2] It prefers to live alongside streams in mountainous areas.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bentley, Joanne; Verboom, G. Anthony; Bergh, Nicola G. (2017). "Species‐level phylogenetic analysis in the Relhania clade of "everlastings" and a new generic treatment of species previously assigned to Macowania and Arrowsmithia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae)". Taxon 66 (6): 1421–1438. doi:10.12705/666.9. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Fluminaria pinifolia (N.E.Br.) N.G.Bergh". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77181961-1. 
  3. "Fluminaria N.G.Bergh". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77181960-1. 

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