Colletia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Rhamnaceae family, with five species of spiny shrubs. All species of this genus are native to southern South America. They are non-legume nitrogen fixers.
Colletia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Rhamnaceae family, with five species of spiny shrubs. All species of this genus are native to southern South America. They are non-legume nitrogen fixers.
==Taxonomy== ===Species=== Colletia comprises the following species: Colletia hystrix Clos - pink crucifixion thorn Colletia paradoxa (Spreng.) Escal. - crucifixion thorn, thorn of the cross, anchor plant Colletia spartioides Bertero ex Colla Colletia spinosissima J.F.Gmel. Colletia ulicina Gillies & Hook.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).