Wulfenia | |
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Wulfenia carinthiaca inflorescence | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Plantaginaceae |
Tribe: | Veroniceae |
Genus: | Wulfenia Jacq. |
Wulfenia is a plant genus in the family Plantaginaceae. The genus was named after Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728–1805), an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest.[1] It was first described in 1781 by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in .[2] It is also in Tribe Veroniceae.
Its native range is from Central Europe (Italy, Albania, Austria and Yugoslavia) to southern Turkey and northern Lebanon and Syria in western Asia.[3]