Lafuentea

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Lafuentea rotundifolia80857.jpg

|image_caption = Lafuentea rotundifolia

|taxon = Lafuentea

|authority = Lag.

|synonyms = Durieua {{small|Mérat}}

}}

Lafuentea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.{{cite web |title=Lafuentea Lag. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37752-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is the Western Mediterranean, where it is found in Morocco and Spain.

The genus name of Lafuentea is in honour of Tadeo Lafuente (b. c. 1780), Spanish military doctor who wrote about yellow fever.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

It was first described and published in Gen. Sp. Pl. on page 19 in 1816.

Known species, according to Kew:

• Lafuentea jeanpertiana {{small|Maire}}
• Lafuentea rotundifolia {{small|Lag.}}