Selago

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Selago spuria.jpg

| image_caption = Selago spuria

| taxon = Selago

| authority = L.

| synonyms =

• Camphorata {{small|Fabr. (1759)}}
• Kuritis {{small|Raf. (1837)}}
• Macria {{small|(E.Mey.) Spach (1840)}}
• Manettia {{small|Boehm. (1760), nom. rej.}}
• Noltia {{small|Eckl. ex Steud. (1841), pro syn.}}
• Pechuelia {{small|Kuntze (1886)}}
• Vormia {{small|Adans. (1763)}}
• Walafrida E.Mey. (1838)

|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38152-1 Selago L.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 September 2023.

}}

Selago is a genus of plants in the family Scrophulariaceae, closely related to Scrophularia and Verbascum.{{cite book |editor=Joachim W. Kadereit |year=2004 |title=Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae) |volume=7 |series=The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783540405931 |chapter=Scrophulariaceae |author=E. Fischer |pages=333–432 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcSZriBQGp4C&pg=PA346}} It contains around 190 species, mostly in southern Africa,{{cite book |author=David J. Mabberley |year=2008 |title=Mabberley's Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications, and Uses |edition=3rd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521820714 |page=787 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RyKKHtwXUYC&pg=PA787}} ranging from Kenya and Democratic Republic of the Congo to South Africa, and including Madagascar.

Two species are listed on the IUCN Red List:

• Selago lepida Hilliard
• Selago nachtigalii Rolfe