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Francoa
Sign in to saveFrancoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Francoaceae, which consists of herbaceous perennials endemic to Chile. Plants may grow up to one metre high and produce basal clumps of round, deeply lobed, dark green, fuzzy leaves with winged leafstalks. Compact racemes of small, cup-shaped flowers, which are pink with red markings, appear in summer and early fall.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGeraniales
- FamilyFrancoaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Francoaceae
- Collections
- F, JBRJ, BRIT, NY
- Recorded in
- Chile, Antofagasta
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Melianthaceae
- Image
- Francoa sonchifolia form.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Francoa
- topic's main category
- Category:Francoa
- Commons category
- Francoa
- taxonomic type
- Francoa appendiculata
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Francoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Francoaceae, which consists of herbaceous perennials endemic to Chile. Plants may grow up to one metre high and produce basal clumps of round, deeply lobed, dark green, fuzzy leaves with winged leafstalks. Compact racemes of small, cup-shaped flowers, which are pink with red markings, appear in summer and early fall.
Plants of the world online recognise this genus as monotypic, with Francoa appendiculata as the only species. The Catalogue of the vascular plants of Chile recognise the varieties Francoa appendiculata Cav. var. appendiculata, Francoa appendiculata Cav. var. ramosa (D. Don) Rolfe and Francoa appendiculata Cav. var. sonchifolia (Cav.) Rolfe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Francoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.