Guichenotia Ledifolia Habit
''Guichenotia'' is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants that are endemic to the south west of Western Australia. The genus was first formally described in 1821 by Jaques Étienne Gay in '' Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle''. The first species Gay described was '' Guichenotia ledifolia''. The genus name honours Antoine Guichenot, gardener's boy on the 1801–1803 French scientific voyage to Australia under Nicolas Baudin. Species list The following species of ''Guichenotia'' are accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at 22 March 2022: *''Guichenotia alba'' Keighery *''Guichenotia angustifolia'' (Turcz.) Druce *''Guichenotia anota'' C.F.Wilkins *''Guichenotia apetala'' A.S.George *''Guichenotia asteriskos'' C.F.Wilkins *''Guichenotia astropletha'' C.F.Wilkins *''Guichenotia basiviridis'' C.F.Wilkins *''Guichenotia glandulosa'' C.F.Wilkins *''Guichenotia impudica'' C.F.Wilkins *'' Guichenotia intermedia'' C.F.Wilkins *'' Guichenotia ledifolia'' J ...
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Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ...
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