Canarina
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Canarina''
| image = Canarina canariensis BotGardBln1105a.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Canarina canariensis''<br/>Canary Island Bellflower
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
| familia = [[Campanulaceae]]
| genus = '''''Canarina'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = see text
}}
'''''Canarina''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plants]] within the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Campanulaceae]]. The best known species is C. canariensis from the [[laurel forest]]s of the [[Canary Islands]] which is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant. ''Canarina canariensis'' is one of a group of unrelated Canarian plants that appear to be adapted for [[bird pollination]], including the members of the genera ''[[Isoplexis]]'' and ''[[Lotus]]''. It was once thought that the original pollinators of these plants were [[sunbirds]] which had become extinct on the Canary Islands, explaining why some of these species are rare and considered endangered (Vogel 1954; Vogel et al. 1984; Valido et al. 2004). However more recent work has shown that these plants are adequately pollinated by non-specialist flower visiting birds, particularly the Canary Island [[chiffchaff]] (''Phylloscopus canariensis''), and in fact show some specific adaptations to infrequent pollination by these birds, such as extended flower lifespans (Ollerton et al. 2008).
[[Species]] include:
*''[[Canarina abyssinica]]'' Engl., which is native to [[Ethiopia]]
*''[[Canarina canariensis]]'' (L.) Vatke (Canary Island Bellflower) which is native to the [[Canary Islands]]
*''[[Canarina eminii]]'' Asch. ex Schweinf., which is native to tropical areas in [[East Africa]].
==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?2023 USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN): ''Canarina'']
*Ollerton J, Cranmer L, Stelzer R, Sullivan S, Chittka L (2008) Bird pollination of Canary Island endemic plants. Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1977.1>
*Valido A, Dupont YL, Olesen JM (2004) Bird-flower interactions in the Macaronesian islands. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1945-1953
*Vogel S (1954) Blütenbiologische Typen als Elemente der Sippengliederung. Botanische Studien (Jena) 1:1-338
*Vogel S, Westerkamp C, Thiel B, Gessner K (1984) Ornithophilie auf den Canarischen Inseln. Plant Systematics and Evolution 146:225-248
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