Selago

Genus of flowering plants

Selago

Selago spuria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Scrophulariaceae
Tribe:  | Limoselleae
Genus:  | Selago

Synonyms[1]

* Camphorata Fabr. (1759)
* Kuritis Raf. (1837)
* Macria (E.Mey.) Spach (1840)
* Manettia Boehm. (1760), nom. rej.
* Noltia Eckl. ex Steud. (1841), pro syn.
* Pechuelia Kuntze (1886)
* Vormia Adans. (1763)
* Walafrida E.Mey. (1838)

Selago is a genus of plants in the family Scrophulariaceae, closely related to Scrophularia and Verbascum.[2] It contains around 190 species, mostly in southern Africa,[3] ranging from Kenya and Democratic Republic of the Congo to South Africa, and including Madagascar.[1]

Two species are listed on the IUCN Red List:

* Selago lepida Hilliard
* Selago nachtigalii Rolfe

## References

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1. ^ a b Selago L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
2. ^ E. Fischer (2004). "Scrophulariaceae". In Joachim W. Kadereit (ed.). Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 7\. Springer. pp. 333–432\. ISBN 9783540405931.
3. ^ 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.

Taxon identifiers

Selago|

* Wikidata: Q149837
* Wikispecies: Selago
* APDB: 194814
* APNI: 76363
* CoL: 7F6Z
* EoL: 5218798
* EPPO: 1SLOG
* GBIF: 3233413
* GRIN: 11041
* iNaturalist: 181961
* IPNI: 38152-1
* NBN: NHMSYS0000463414
* NCBI: 39254
* Open Tree of Life: 434994
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38152-1
* Tropicos: 40034894
* VicFlora: a3b52a81-1c35-464e-9c6f-6810469d5e72
* WFO: wfo-4000034970

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