Foleyola
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Foleyola is a monotypic genus belonging to the Brassicaceae family. Its only species is Foleyola billotii native to North Africa in Algeria, Mauritania and Morocco.{{cite web |title=Foleyola billotii - type specimens |url=https://plants.jstor.org/search?plantName=%22Foleyola+billotii%22&syn=1 |website=JSTOR Global Plants |publisher=ITHAKA |accessdate=11 December 2019}}
Taxonomy
Foleyola billotii was first described by René Maire.{{cite journal |last1=Maire |first1=Rene Charles |title=Foleyola billotii|journal=Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord |date=1925 |volume=16 |page=90}} The individual flowers have purple petals and are spaced along the inflorescence.{{cite web |last1=Peltier |first1=Jean-Paul |title=Foleyola billotii |url=https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/brassicaceae/foleyola-billotii |website=Plant biodiversity of south-western Morocco |accessdate=11 December 2019}} Its growth habit is as a shrub. It grows in arid areas. The number of chromosomes is n=16.{{cite journal |last1=Warwick |first1=S I |last2=Black |first2=L D |last3=Anderson |first3=J K |editor1-last=Warwick |editor1-first=S I |editor2-last=Anderson |editor2-first=J K |title=Chromosome numbers in the tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae) |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetowildgerm199315warw |date=1993 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/guidetowildgerm199315warw/page/4 4] - 10 |series=Guide to the Wild Germplasm of Brassica and Allied Crops. Part II. Chromosome Numbers in the Tribe Brassiceae (Cruciferae). Techn. Bull. |publisher=Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada |location=Ottawa}}