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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Fouquieria''
| image = Ocotillo-400px.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Fouquieria splendens'' (Ocotillo)
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Ericales]]
| familia = '''Fouquieriaceae'''
| familia_authority = [[A. P. de Candolle|DC.]]
| genus = '''''Fouquieria'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carl Sigismund Kunth|Kunth]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
'''''Fouquieria''''' is a [[genus]] of 11 [[species]] of [[desert]] [[plant]]s, the sole genus in the [[Family (biology) |family]] '''Fouquieriaceae'''. The genus includes the [[Ocotillo]] (''F. splendens'') and the [[Boojum tree]] or Cirio (''F. columnaris''). They have [[succulent]] stems with thinner spikes projecting from them, with [[leaf|leaves]] on the spikes. They are unrelated to [[cactus|cacti]] and do not look much like them; their stems are proportionately thinner than cactus stems and their leaves are larger.
These plants are native to northern [[Mexico]] and the bordering [[United States|US]] states of [[Arizona]], southern [[California]], [[New Mexico]], and parts of southwestern [[Texas]], favoring low, arid hillsides.
The [[Seri]] people identify three species of ''Fouquieria'' in their area of Mexico: ''jomjéeziz'' or ''xomjéeziz'' (''F. splendens''), ''jomjéeziz caacöl'' (''F. diguetii'', Baja California tree ocotillo), and ''cototaj'' (''F. columnaris'', boojum).
The genus is named after French physician [[Pierre Fouquier]] (1776-1850).
== Species of ''Fouquieria'' ==
*''[[Fouquieria burragei]]'' Rose
*''[[Fouquieria columnaris]]'' (Kellog) Kellog ex Curran
*''[[Fouquieria diguetii]]'' (Tiegh.) I.M.Johnst.
*''[[Fouquieria fasciculata]]'' Nash
*''[[Fouquieria formosa]]'' Kunth
*''[[Fouquieria leonilae]]'' Miranda
*''[[Fouquieria macdougalii]]'' Nash
*''[[Fouquieria ochoterenae]]'' Miranda
*''[[Fouquieria purpusii]]'' Brandegee
*''[[Fouquieria shrevei]]'' I.M.Johnst.
*''[[Fouquieria splendens]]'' Engelm.
They do not have a particularly close resemblance to any other sort of plants; genetic evidence has shown that they belong in the [[Ericales]]. Prior to this, they had been variously placed in the [[Violales]] or their own order Fouquieriales.
===Ecology===
''Fouquieria diguetii'' is host to the [[Peacock mite]] ''Tuckerella eloisae''.
==References==
*{{cite book |last=Felger |first=Richard |coauthors=Mary B. Moser. |title=People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians |location=Tucson |year=1985 |publisher=University of Arizona Press}}
*{{cite book |last=Moser |first=Mary B. |coauthors=Stephen A. Marlett |title=Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés |url=http://lengamer.org/admin/language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/DiccionarioSeri2005.pdf |year=2005 |publisher=Universidad de Sonora and Plaza y Valdés Editores |location=Hermosillo, Sonora |language=Spanish and English}}
==External links==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4742 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Fouquieria'']
*[http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/fouquier.htm Fouquieriaceae] in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.]
[[Category:Ericales]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Fouquieria''
| image = Ocotillo-400px.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Fouquieria splendens'' (Ocotillo)
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Ericales]]
| familia = '''Fouquieriaceae'''
| familia_authority = [[A. P. de Candolle|DC.]]
| genus = '''''Fouquieria'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carl Sigismund Kunth|Kunth]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
'''''Fouquieria''''' is a [[genus]] of 11 [[species]] of [[desert]] [[plant]]s, the sole genus in the [[Family (biology) |family]] '''Fouquieriaceae'''. The genus includes the [[Ocotillo]] (''F. splendens'') and the [[Boojum tree]] or Cirio (''F. columnaris''). They have [[succulent]] stems with thinner spikes projecting from them, with [[leaf|leaves]] on the spikes. They are unrelated to [[cactus|cacti]] and do not look much like them; their stems are proportionately thinner than cactus stems and their leaves are larger.
These plants are native to northern [[Mexico]] and the bordering [[United States|US]] states of [[Arizona]], southern [[California]], [[New Mexico]], and parts of southwestern [[Texas]], favoring low, arid hillsides.
The [[Seri]] people identify three species of ''Fouquieria'' in their area of Mexico: ''jomjéeziz'' or ''xomjéeziz'' (''F. splendens''), ''jomjéeziz caacöl'' (''F. diguetii'', Baja California tree ocotillo), and ''cototaj'' (''F. columnaris'', boojum).
The genus is named after French physician [[Pierre Fouquier]] (1776-1850).
== Species of ''Fouquieria'' ==
*''[[Fouquieria burragei]]'' Rose
*''[[Fouquieria columnaris]]'' (Kellog) Kellog ex Curran
*''[[Fouquieria diguetii]]'' (Tiegh.) I.M.Johnst.
*''[[Fouquieria fasciculata]]'' Nash
*''[[Fouquieria formosa]]'' Kunth
*''[[Fouquieria leonilae]]'' Miranda
*''[[Fouquieria macdougalii]]'' Nash
*''[[Fouquieria ochoterenae]]'' Miranda
*''[[Fouquieria purpusii]]'' Brandegee
*''[[Fouquieria shrevei]]'' I.M.Johnst.
*''[[Fouquieria splendens]]'' Engelm.
They do not have a particularly close resemblance to any other sort of plants; genetic evidence has shown that they belong in the [[Ericales]]. Prior to this, they had been variously placed in the [[Violales]] or their own order Fouquieriales.
===Ecology===
''Fouquieria diguetii'' is host to the [[Peacock mite]] ''Tuckerella eloisae''.
==References==
*{{cite book |last=Felger |first=Richard |coauthors=Mary B. Moser. |title=People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians |location=Tucson |year=1985 |publisher=University of Arizona Press}}
*{{cite book |last=Moser |first=Mary B. |coauthors=Stephen A. Marlett |title=Comcáac quih yaza quih hant ihíip hac: Diccionario seri-español-inglés |url=http://lengamer.org/admin/language_folders/seri/user_uploaded_files/links/File/DiccionarioSeri2005.pdf |year=2005 |publisher=Universidad de Sonora and Plaza y Valdés Editores |location=Hermosillo, Sonora |language=Spanish and English}}
==External links==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4742 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Fouquieria'']
*[http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/fouquier.htm Fouquieriaceae] in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.]
[[Category:Ericales]]
