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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Aragoa cupressina.jpg
|image_caption = ''Aragoa cupressina''
|taxon = Aragoa
|authority = [[Carl Sigismund Kunth|Kunth]] (1819)
|subdivision_ranks = species
|subdivision = 19; see text
|subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37436-1 ''Aragoa'' Kunth]. ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 15 May 2024.</ref>
}}
'''''Aragoa''''' is a genus of woody perennials native to the [[páramo]] of Colombia and north-western Venezuela. It classified as the sister taxon to ''[[Littorella]]'' and ''[[Plantago]]'', all of which are now classified in the family [[Plantaginaceae]].<ref name="hoggard">{{cite journal | title = Molecular systematics and biogeography of the amphibious genus Littorella (Plantaginaceae) | author1 = Ronald K. Hoggard | author2 = Paul J. Kores | author3 = Mia Molvray | author4 = Gloria D. Hoggard | author5 = David A. Broughton | journal = American Journal of Botany | year = 2003 | volume = 90 | pages = 429–435 | doi = 10.3732/ajb.90.3.429 | issue = 3 | pmid = 21659136 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.2307/4110987 | journal = Kew Bulletin | year = 2002 | volume = 57 | issue = 3 | last1 = Bello | first1 = M. A. | last2 = Chase | first2 = M. W. | last3 = Olmstead | first3 = R. G. | last4 = Rønsted | first4 = N. | last5 = Albach | first5 = D. | title = The Paramo Endemic Aragoa Is the Sister Genus of Plantago (Plantaginaceae; Lamiales): Evidence from Plastid rbcL and Nuclear Ribosomal ITS Sequence Data | pages = 585–597 | jstor=4110987| bibcode = 2002KewBu..57..585B }}</ref> It is found at elevations above about 3000 m.<ref name="hoggard"/>
==Species==
19 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/>
*''[[Aragoa abietina]]'' {{small|Kunth}}
*''[[Aragoa abscondita]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa castroviejoi]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa × chingacensis]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa cleefii]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa corrugatifolia]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa cundinamarcensis]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa cupressina]]'' {{small|Kunth}}
*''[[Aragoa × diazii]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa dugandii]]'' {{small|Romero}}
*''[[Aragoa funckii]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa × funzana]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa hammenii]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa × jaramilloi]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa kogiorum]]'' {{small|Romero}}
*''[[Aragoa lucidula]]'' {{small|S.F.Blake}}
*''[[Aragoa lycopodioides]]'' {{small|Benth. ex Oliver}}
*''[[Aragoa occidentalis]]'' {{small|Pennell}}
*''[[Aragoa parviflora]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso & Castrov.}}
*''[[Aragoa perez-arbelaeziana]]'' {{small|Romero}}
*''[[Aragoa picachensis]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa romeroi]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
*''[[Aragoa tamana]]'' {{small|Fern.Alonso}}
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Plantaginaceae]]
[[Category:Plantaginaceae genera]]
[[Category:Flora of Colombia]]
[[Category:Flora of Venezuela]]
[[Category:Páramo flora]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Carl Sigismund Kunth]]
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