Nemesia caerulea

Nemesia caerulea
Nemesia caerulea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Tribe: Hemimerideae
Genus: Nemesia
Species: N. caerulea
Binomial name
Nemesia caerulea
Hiern

Nemesia caerulea is a blue to purple flowered herbaceous perennial member of the Scrophulariaceae or Figwort Family.[1] The plant is native to the Cape Floristic Province of southwestern South Africa where it grows at low elevations on fully exposed north-facing and northwest-facing slopes in association with other native grasses and forbs.[2] Its chromosome number is 2n=18.[3]

References

  1. ^ Datson, Paul M.; Brian G. Murray and Keith R. W. Hammett (2006). "Pollination systems, hybridization barriers and meiotic chromosome behaviour in Nemesia hybrids". Euphytica 151 (2): 173–185. doi:10.1007/s10681-006-9138-z. 
  2. ^ Brandl, Robert F.; Pieter J. Du PreezII and Leslie R. BrownIII (2008). "A floristic description of the Afromontane fynbos communities on Platberg, Eastern Free State, South Africa". African Protected Area Conservation and Science 50 (1). http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0075-64582008000100020&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en. Retrieved 2010-09-20. 
  3. ^ Steiner, Kim E. (1996). "Chromosome Numbers and Relationships in Tribe Hemimerideae (Scrophulariaceae)". Systematic Botany 21 (1): 63–76. doi:10.2307/2419563. 
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