| Foleyola | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Foleyola Maire |
| Species: | F. billotii |
| Binomial name | |
| Foleyola billotii Maire | |
Foleyola is a monotypic genus belonging to the Brassicaceae family. Its only species is Foleyola billotii native to North Africa in Algeria, Mauritania and Morocco.
Taxonomy
Foleyola billotii was first described by René Maire. The individual flowers have purple petals and are spaced along the inflorescence. Its growth habit is as a shrub. It grows in arid areas. The number of chromosomes is n=16.
References
- "Foleyola billotii - type specimens". JSTOR Global Plants. ITHAKA. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- Maire, Rene Charles (1925). "Foleyola billotii". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord. 16: 90.
- Peltier, Jean-Paul. "Foleyola billotii". Plant biodiversity of south-western Morocco. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- Warwick, S I; Black, L D; Anderson, J K (1993). Warwick, S I; Anderson, J K (eds.). "Chromosome numbers in the tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae)". Guide to the Wild Germplasm of Brassica and Allied Crops. Part II. Chromosome Numbers in the Tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae). Techn. Bull. Ottawa: Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada: 4 - 10.
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| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Foleyola | |
| Foleyola billotii | |