Alonsoa (mask flower) is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Scrophulariaceae. The genus includes both herbaceous and shrubby species.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Tribe: | Hemimerideae |
| Genus: | Alonsoa Ruiz & Pav. |
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The genus is native to Central and western South America, from south Mexico to Peru and Chile. At least two species are native to South Africa.[1] Alonsoas grow to around 30–100 cm tall, and have small, broadly oval, serrated leaves. The red, orange, yellow, white or occasionally blue flowers are borne on a loose terminal raceme.
The alonsoa is named after Zenón de Alonso Acosta, a Spanish official in Bogota, Colombia.[2][3]
Species edit
- Alonsoa acutifolia Ruiz & Pav.[4]
- Alonsoa albiflora G.Nicholson
- Alonsoa auriculata Diels
- Alonsoa caulialata Ruiz & Pav.
- Alonsoa hirsuta (Spreng.) Steud.
- Alonsoa honoraria Grau
- Alonsoa linearis (Jacq.) Ruiz & Pav.
- Alonsoa meridionalis (L.f.) Kuntze
- Alonsoa minor Edwin
- Alonsoa pallida Edwin
- Alonsoa peduncularis (Kuntze) Wettst.
- Alonsoa quadrifolia G.Don
- Alonsoa serrata Pennell
References edit
- ^ Steiner, Kim E. (1989). "A Second Species of the Amphi-Atlantic Genus Alonsoa (Scrophulariaceae) in South Africa". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 76 (4): 1152–1159. doi:10.2307/2399701. JSTOR 2399701.
- ^ H. Ruiz López & J.A. Pavón, Systema Vegetabilium Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis 150–152, 1798
- ^ Mark A. Burkholder, Biographical Dictionary of Councilors of the Indies, 1717-1808, 1986, p.. 5-6
- ^ Species in Alonsoa
External links edit
Media related to Alonsoa at Wikimedia Commons- Alonsoa meridionalis pictures growing in Chile
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