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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Santolina
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 842. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 365. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Santolina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Santolina]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin sanctus, holy, and linum, flax; ancient name for a species of the genus
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 26, 487
|treatment_page=page 497
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> [5–]10–60 cm (sometimes ± rhizomatous; aromatic). <b>Stems</b> usually 1, ± erect [decumbent to ascending], branched mostly from bases [± throughout], often tomentose to lanate, sometimes glabrate or glabrous [sericeous] (hairs mostly medifixed) and gland-dotted. <b>Leaves</b> cauline [mostly basal]; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades narrowly oblong or spatulate to linear, usually 1-pinnately lobed (lobes usually crowded and overall effect ± vermiform), ultimate margins entire or ± crenate, faces usually arachnose or tomentose to lanate, sometimes glabrate or glabrous [sericeous]. <b>Heads</b> discoid, borne singly (pedunculate). <b>Involucres</b> campanulate to hemispheric or broader, [3–]6–10[–12+] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent (soon indurate), 18–45+ in 3(–5+) series, distinct, lanceolate to elliptic (usually carinate), unequal, margins and apices (usually light to dark brown, sometimes purple) scarious (abaxial faces glabrous or ± arachnose, glabrescent). <b>Receptacles</b> convex to hemispheric, paleate; paleae ± lanceolate, ± navicular (each with central resin duct). <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets mostly 60–250+, bisexual, fertile; corollas pale to bright or deep yellow [whitish], tubes often compressed (± winged and/or saccate, ± clasping apices of cypselae), throats ± funnelform, lobes 5, lance-ovate. <b>Cypselae</b> obconic to obovoid, sometimes slightly obcompressed, 3–5-angled, faces glabrous (pericarps sometimes with myxogenic cells, without resin sacs); pappi 0. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Europe;n Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 8–12+ (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Santolina
|author=Linda E. Watson
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=s Europe;n Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Santolina
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