Santolina

Santolina is a genus of plants in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family, primarily from the western Mediterranean region.[2][3]

Santolina
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Subfamily:
Asteroideae
Tribe:
Anthemideae[1]
Genus:
Santolina

Type species
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Synonyms[1]
  • Chamomilla (Hall) Gray

They are small evergreen shrubs growing 10–60 cm (4–24 in) tall. The leaves are simple and minute in some species, or pinnate, finely divided in other species, often densely silvery hairy, and usually aromatic. The composite flowerheads are yellow or white, produced in dense globose capitula 1–2 cm in diameter, on top of slender stems held 10–25 cm (4–10 in) above the foliage. There are no ray florets.[4]

Santolina species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix santolinella (feeds exclusively on S. chamaecyparissus) and the Coleophora case-bearers C. albicella (recorded on S. chamaecyparissus), C. involucrella (feeds exclusively on Santolina spp) and C. santolinella (feeds exclusively on S. chamaecyparissus).

Species[1][5]
  • Santolina africana Jord. & Fourr. - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
  • Santolina benthamiana Jord. & Fourr. - France, Spain
  • Santolina canescens Lag. - Spain
  • Santolina chamaecyparissus L. - from Spain to Ireland + Turkey
  • Santolina corsica Jord. & Fourr. - Corsica
  • Santolina decumbens Mill. - France, Spain
  • Santolina etrusca (Lacaita) Marchi & D'Amato - Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio (Italy)
  • Santolina insularis (Gennari ex Fiori) Arrigoni - Sardinia, Italy
  • Santolina magonica (O.Bolòs, Molin. & P.Monts.) Romo - Balearic Islands, Spain
  • Santolina melidensis (Rodr.Oubiña & S.Ortiz) Rodr.Oubiña & S.Ortiz - Spain
  • Santolina neapolitana Jord. & Fourr. - Campania, Italy
  • Santolina oblongifolia Boiss. - Spain
  • Santolina pectinata Lag. - Algeria, Morocco, Spain
  • Santolina pinnata Viv. - Tuscany, Italy
  • Santolina rosmarinifolia L. - south western Europe
  • Santolina semidentata Hoffmanns. & Link - Spain, Portugal
  • Santolina tinctoria Molina - Chile
  • Santolina villosa Mill. - France, Spain
  • Santolina virens Mill. - France, Spain, UK, Germany, Abruzzo (Italy), Ukraine
formerly included

numerous species formerly regarded as members of Santolina but now judged better suited to other genera: Achillea Athanasia Anthemis Calea Cladanthus Helenium Isocarpha Lasiospermum Lonas Matricaria Oedera Porophyllum Salmea Tanacetum

References
  1. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 842-843 in Latin
  3. Tropicos, Santolina L.
  4. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
  5. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Santolina includes photos + distribution maps

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