Fumana

{{short description|Genus of flowering plants in the rock rose family Cistaceae}} {{automatic taxobox |image=Fumana arabica - Mediterranean rockrose 04.jpg |image_caption=''Fumana arabica'', Mediterranean rockrose |taxon=Fumana |authority=(Dunal) Spach<ref name=vol5>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8oMV1lsS6kC&pg=PA67 |title=The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 5: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales, and Non-betalain Caryophyllales |editor=Klaus Kubitzki |editor2=Clemens Bayer |publisher=Springer |year= 2003 |isbn=978-3-540-42873-2}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 19; see text | subdivision_ref = <ref name="powo">{{cite web |title=''Fumana'' (Dunal) Spach |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:7077-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=19 September 2024}}</ref> | synonyms = *''Fumanopsis'' {{small|Pomel (1860)}} *''Pomelina'' {{small|(Maire) Güemes & Raynaud (1992)}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}

'''''Fumana''''' ('''needle sunrose''') is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cistaceae. They are small perennial shrubs with five-lobed yellow flowers, native to rocky and sandy soils of Europe and wider Mediterranean region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rareplants.de/shop/product.asp?P_ID=8937|title=Sprawling Needle Sunrose}}</ref> ''Fumana'' shrubs can be procumbent or erect.<ref>{{Citation|last=Kubitzki|first=K.|chapter=Introduction to Capparales|date=2003|pages=7–10|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-642-07680-0|doi=10.1007/978-3-662-07255-4_3|title=Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons}}</ref> Leaves tend to be very narrow and are almost always alternate.

==Species== 19 species, and several interspecific hybrids, are accepted.<ref name = powo/> * ''Fumana aciphylla'' {{small|Boiss.}} * ''Fumana arabica'' {{small|(L.) Spach}} * ''Fumana bonapartei'' {{small|Maire & Petitm.}} * ''Fumana ericoides'' {{small|(Cav.) Gand.}} * ''Fumana fontanesii'' {{small|Clauson ex Pomel}} * ''Fumana fontqueri'' {{small|Güemes}} * ''Fumana grandiflora'' {{small|Jaub. & Spach}} * ''Fumana × heywoodii'' {{small|Rivas Mart. & al.}} * ''Fumana juniperina'' {{small|(Lag. ex Dunal) Pau}} * ''Fumana lacidulemiensis'' {{small|Güemes}} * ''Fumana laevipes'' {{small|(L.) Spach}} * ''Fumana laevis'' {{small|(Cav.) Pau}} * ''Fumana × neverensis'' {{small|Pérez Dacosta}} * ''Fumana oligosperma'' {{small|Boiss. & Kotschy}} * ''Fumana paphlagonica'' {{small|Bornm. & Janch.}} * ''Fumana paradoxa'' {{small|Heywood}} * ''Fumana procumbens'' {{small|(Dunal) Gren. & Godr.}} * ''Fumana × quartensis'' {{small|Pérez Dacosta & Mateo}} * ''Fumana scoparia'' {{small|Pomel}} * ''Fumana thymifolia'' {{small|(L.) Webb}} * ''Fumana trisperma'' {{small|Hub.-Mor. & Reese}} * ''Fumana × vilanovensis'' {{small|Pérez Dacosta}} * ''Fumana viridis'' {{small|(Ten.) Sennen}} * ''Fumana × zafrensis'' {{small|Pérez Dacosta & Mateo}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * [http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Fumana Photo gallery of ''Fumana'' species] at Flora Italiana

Category:Fumana Category:Malvales genera Category:Flora of the Palearctic realm Category:Taxa described in 1836 Category:Taxa named by Édouard Spach