Wulfenia
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| Wulfenia | |
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| Wulfenia carinthiaca inflorescence | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Tribe: | Veroniceae |
| Genus: | Wulfenia Jacq. |
Wulfenia is a plant genus in the family Plantaginaceae. The genus was named after Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728–1805), an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest.[1] It was first described in 1781 by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in .[2] It is also in Tribe Veroniceae.
Its native range is from Central Europe (Italy, Albania, Austria and Balkans) to southern Turkey and northern Lebanon and Syria in western Asia.[3]
