Santolina is a genus of plants in the chamomile tribe within the sunflower family, primarily from the western Mediterranean region.
They are small evergreen shrubs growing 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 1âÂÂ2 cm in diameter, on top of slender stems held above the foliage. There are no ray florets.
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
Sources:
- Santolina africana <small>Jord. & Fourr.</small> - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
- Santolina benthamiana <small>Jord. & Fourr.</small> - France, Spain
- Santolina canescens <small>Lag.</small> â Spain
- Santolina chamaecyparissus <small>L.</small> â from Spain to Ireland + Turkey
- Santolina corsica <small>Jord. & Fourr.</small> â Corsica
- Santolina decumbens <small>Mill.</small> â France, Spain
- Santolina ericoides <small>Poir.</small> â France, Spain
- Santolina impressa <small>Hoffmanns. & Link</small> â Portugal
- Santolina magonica <small>(O.Bolòs, Molin. & P.Monts.) Romo</small> â Balearic Islands, Spain
- Santolina melidensis <small>(Rodr.Oubiña & S.Ortiz) Rodr.Oubiña & S.Ortiz</small> â Spain
- Santolina neapolitana <small>Jord. & Fourr.</small> â Campania, Italy
- Santolina oblongifolia <small>Boiss.</small> â Spain
- Santolina pectinata <small>Lag.</small> â Algeria, Morocco, Spain
- Santolina pinnata <small>Viv.</small> â Tuscany, Italy
- Santolina rosmarinifolia <small>L.</small> â south western Europe
- Santolina semidentata <small>Hoffmanns. & Link</small> â Spain, Portugal
- Santolina tinctoria <small>Molina</small> â Chile
- Santolina villosa <small>Mill.</small> â Spain
- Santolina virens <small>Mill.</small> â 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, and Tanacetum.
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