Santolina

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 2: 842. 1753.

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Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 365. 1754.

Etymology: Latin sanctus, holy, and linum, flax ancient name for a species of the genus
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 497. Mentioned on page 26, 487.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA19 P57 Chamaemelum nobile.jpegChamaemelum nobile
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Picrothamnus desertorum
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
John Myers

Subshrubs, [5–] 10–60 cm (sometimes ± rhizomatous; aromatic). Stems usually 1, ± erect [decumbent to ascending], branched mostly from bases [± throughout], often tomentose to lanate, sometimes glabrate or glabrous [sericeous] (hairs mostly medifixed) and gland-dotted. Leaves cauline [mostly basal]; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades narrowly oblong or spatulate to linear, usually 1-pinnately lobed (lobes usually crowded and overall effect ± vermiform), ultimate margins entire or ± crenate, faces usually arachnose or tomentose to lanate, sometimes glabrate or glabrous [sericeous]. Heads discoid, borne singly (pedunculate). Involucres campanulate to hemispheric or broader, [3–] 6–10 [–12+] mm diam. Phyllaries persistent (soon indurate), 18–45+ in 3 (–5+) series, distinct, lanceolate to elliptic (usually carinate), unequal, margins and apices (usually light to dark-brown, sometimes purple) scarious (abaxial faces glabrous or ± arachnose, glabrescent). Receptacles convex to hemispheric, paleate; paleae ± lanceolate, ± navicular (each with central resin duct). Ray-florets 0. Disc-florets mostly 60–250+, bisexual, fertile; corollas pale to bright or deep yellow [whitish], tubes often compressed (± winged and/or saccate, ± clasping apices of cypselae), throats ± funnelform, lobes 5, lanceovate. Cypselae obconic to obovoid, sometimes slightly obcompressed, 3–5-angled, faces glabrous (pericarps sometimes with myxogenic cells, without resin sacs); pappi 0. x = 9.

Distribution

Introduced; s Europe, n Africa

Discussion

Species 8–12+ (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

"broader" is not a number.

... more about "Santolina"
not tailed +  and obtuse +
scarious +
spiciform +, racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Linda E. Watson +
Linnaeus +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
lobed;spatulate;linear +
zygomorphic +, actinomorphic +  and (3-)5-merous +
yellow +  and pale +
winged +  and monomorphic +
3-5-angled +, obcompressed +, obconic +  and obovoid +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
s Europe +  and n Africa +
Latin sanctus, holy, and linum, flax +  and ancient name for a species of the genus +
glabrous +, glabrate +, tomentose +  and lanate +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
campanulate;hemispheric +
sessile +  and petiolate +
lanceovate +
entire +  and dentate +
2-carpellate +
navicular;lanceolate +
persistent +
18 +  and 45 +
Sp. Pl. +  and Gen. Pl. ed. +
1753 +  and 1754 +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
sterile +  and fertile +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
convex;hemispheric +
exalbuminous +
gland-dotted +
glabrous +, glabrate +, tomentose +  and lanate +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Compositae +
Santolina +
Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae +
compressed +
crenate +  and entire +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +