Foleyola Explained

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.[1]

Taxonomy

Foleyola billotii was first described by René Maire.[2] The individual flowers have purple petals and are spaced along the inflorescence.[3] Its growth habit is as a shrub. It grows in arid areas. The number of chromosomes is n=16.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foleyola billotii - type specimens . JSTOR Global Plants . ITHAKA . 11 December 2019.
  2. Maire . Rene Charles . Foleyola billotii. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord . 1925 . 16 . 90.
  3. Web site: Peltier . Jean-Paul . Foleyola billotii . Plant biodiversity of south-western Morocco . 11 December 2019.
  4. Warwick . S I . Black . L D . Anderson . J K . Warwick . S I . Anderson . J K . Chromosome numbers in the tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae) . 1993 . 4 - 10 . Guide to the Wild Germplasm of Brassica and Allied Crops. Part II. Chromosome Numbers in the Tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae). Techn. Bull. . Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada . Ottawa.

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