Nama (plant)

Nama
Nama demissum, Nevada desert
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Namaceae
Genus: Nama
L.[1]
Type species
Nama jamaicense
L.
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Andropus Brand
  • Conanthus S.Watson[1]
  • Lemmonia A.Gray
  • Marilaunidium Kuntze

Nama is a genus of herbaceous plants belonging to the family Namaceae.[2] Most are found in western North America. Many are known by the common name fiddleleaf.[3]

Selected species

  • Nama aretioides (Hook. & Arn.) Brand – ground nama
  • Nama arizonicum Bacon – Arizona fiddleleaf
  • Nama californicum (A.Gray) Bacon – California fiddleleaf
  • Nama carnosum (Woot.) C.L.Hitchc. – sand fiddleleaf
  • Nama demissum A.Gray – purple mat
  • Nama densum J.G.Lemmon – leafy nama
  • Nama depressum J.G. & S.A. Lemmon ex A.Gray – depressed fiddleleaf
  • Nama dichotomum (Ruiz & Pavón) Choisy – wishbone fiddleleaf
  • Nama havardii A.Gray – Havard's fiddleleaf
  • Nama hispidum A.Gray – sand bells, bristly nama
  • Nama jamaicense L. – Jamaicanweed
  • Nama lobbii A.Gray – Lobb's fiddleleaf
  • Nama macranthum (Choisy) Brand – royal fiddleleaf
  • Nama parvifolium (Torr.) Greenm. – small-leaf fiddleleaf
  • Nama pusillum J.G. & S.A. Lemmon ex A.Gray – eggleaf fiddleleaf
  • Nama retrorsum J.T.Howell – betatakin fiddleleaf
  • Nama rothrockii A.Gray – Rothrock's fiddleleaf
  • Nama sandwicense A.Gray – hinahina kahakai
  • Nama serpylloides A.Gray ex Hemsl. – velvet fiddleleaf
  • Nama stenocarpa A.Gray – mud fiddleleaf
  • Nama stenophyllum A.Gray ex Hemsl. – slimpod fiddleleaf
  • Nama stevensii C.L.Hitchc. – Stevens' fiddleleaf
  • Nama torynophyllum Greenm. – matted fiddleleaf
  • Nama undulatum Kunth – whitewhisker fiddleleaf
  • Nama xylopodum (Woot. & Standl.) C.L.Hitchc. – yellowseed fiddleleaf[4][5]

Formerly placed here

  • Evolvulus convolvuloides (Willd.) Stearn (as N. convolvuloides Willd.)
  • Eriodictyon parryi (A.Gray) Greene (as N. parryi A.Gray)[5]
Nama
  • Nama aretioides
  • Nama demissum
  • Nama hispidum
  • Nama jamaicense
  • Nama sandwicense

References

  1. ^ a b "Genus: Nama L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
  2. ^ "Namaceae Molinari". World Flora Online. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
  3. ^ NRCS. "Nama". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Nama". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
  5. ^ a b "GRIN Species Records of Nama". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-03-05.
  • Media related to Nama at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Nama at Wikispecies


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