Aurinia

Genus of flowering plants

The gastropod genus Aurinia is nowadays usually considered a junior synonym of Scaphella.

Aurinia

Aurinia saxatilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Brassicales
Family:  | Brassicaceae
Genus:  | Aurinia
Desv.

Aurinia is a genus of flowering plants of the family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), native to mountainous areas of Central and Southern Europe, Russia and Turkey. They are closely related to Alyssum, which they resemble. They can either be biennial or woody-based evergreen perennials. They produce panicles of yellow flowers in early summer.[1]

Aurinia contains the following species accepted by The Plant List:[2]

* Aurinia corymbosa Griseb.
* Aurinia cyclocarpa (Boiss.) Czerep.
* Aurinia gionae (Quézel & Contandr.) Greuter & Burdet
* Aurinia leucadea (Guss.) K.Koch
* Aurinia moreana Tzanoud. & Iatroú
* Aurinia petraea (Ard.) Schur
* Aurinia rupestris (Sweet) Cullen & T.R.Dudley
* Aurinia saxatilis (L.) Desv.
* Aurinia sinuata (L.) Griseb.
* Aurinia uechtritziana (Bornm.) Cullen & T.R.Dudley

## References

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1. ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136\. ISBN 978-1405332965.
2. ^ "Aurinia". The Plant List. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

## External links

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* Media related to Aurinia at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Aurinia|

* Wikidata: Q3273285
* Wikispecies: Aurinia
* CoL: 62DKX
* EoL: 71313
* EPPO: 1AVNG
* FNA: 103199
* FoC: 103199
* GBIF: 3053997
* GRIN: 13524
* iNaturalist: 64617
* IPNI: 12344-1
* IRMNG: 1094383
* ITIS: 23048
* NBN: NHMSYS0000456357
* NCBI: 169390
* NZOR: 222a25c6-d42e-4ba0-8a6f-40903565fa8f
* Open Tree of Life: 780989
* PLANTS: AURIN
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12344-1
* Tropicos: 40023025
* VASCAN: 879
* WFO: wfo-4000003700

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