Salimenaea
| Salimenaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Verbenaceae |
| Genus: | Salimenaea N.O'Leary & P.Moroni |
| Species: | S. integrifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Salimenaea integrifolia (Griseb.) N.O'Leary & P.Moroni
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Salimenaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Verbenaceae. It includes a single species, Salimenaea integrifolia, a shrub native to Bolivia, northern Argentina, and northern Chile, where it grows in deserts and dry shrublands.[1]
The species was first described as Lippia turbinata var. integrifolia by August Grisebach.[1] In 2023 Nataly O'Leary et al. placed in the new monotypic genus Salimenaea as Salimenaea integrifolia.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Salimenaea integrifolia (Griseb.) N.O'Leary & P.Moroni". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
- ^ Nataly O'Leary, Pablo Moroni, Patricia Lu-Irving, Fabiana Mirra, and Richard G. Olmstead "Salimenaea and Troncosoa (Verbenaceae, Lantaneae), Two New Monotypic Genera from Southern South America," Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 31(1), 95-107, (23 May 2023). https://doi.org/10.3417/2023817
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