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Leptospermeae
Leptospermeae is a tribe in the plant family MyrtaceaeWilson, P. G. (2011) Myrtaceae. In The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Volume X. Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, edited by K. Kubitzki, X:212–71. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2011. from south-east Asia and Oceania with a main diversity center in Australia. Genera *'' Agonis'' (Australia) *'' Asteromyrtus'' (Australia) *'' Homalospermum'' (Australia) *'' Kunzea'' (Australia, New Zealand) *''Leptospermum'' *''Neofabricia ''Neofabricia'' is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Myrtaceae, first described as a genus in 1788, with the name ''Fabricia''. This, however, was an illegitimate homonym, in other words, someone had already used the name to refer t ...'' (Australia) *'' Paragonis'' ((Australia) *'' Pericalymma'' ((Australia) *'' Taxandria'' (Australia) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q13420286 Rosid tribes Myrtaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava, acca (feijoa), allspice, and eucalyptus are some notable members of this group. All species are woody, contain essential oils, and have flower parts in multiples of four or five. The leaves are evergreen, alternate to mostly opposite, simple, and usually entire (i.e., without a toothed margin). The flowers have a base number of five petals, though in several genera, the petals are minute or absent. The stamens are usually very conspicuous, brightly coloured, and numerous. Evolutionary history Scientists hypothesize that the family Myrtaceae arose between 60 and 56 million years ago (Mya) during the Paleocene era. Pollen fossils have been sourced to the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. The breakup of Gondwana during the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 Mya) geographically isolated disjunct taxa and allowed for rapid speciation; i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agonis
''Agonis'' is a genus in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic (ecology), endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the Southwest Australia, south west. Description Only one, ''Agonis flexuosa'', grows to tree size; the others generally grow as tall shrubs. ''Agonis'' formerly contained a number of other species, but the genus was recently split, with the majority moved to ''Taxandria (plant), Taxandria''. The species ''Agonis grandiflora'' was segregated to a monotypic genus, ''Paragonis''.Wheeler, J.R. & Marchant, N.G., (2007) A revision of the Western Australian genus ''Agonis'' (Myrtaceae) and two new segregate genera ''Taxandria'' and ''Paragonis''. Nuytsia 16(2): 406-407 ''Agonis'' species generally have fibrous, brown bark, dull green leaves and inflorescences of small, white flowers. They are best known and most readily identified by the powerful odour of peppermint emitted when the leaves are crushed or torn, though some plants in fact emit an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asteromyrtus
''Asteromyrtus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Myrtaceae family. It is closely related to ''Callistemon'' and ''Melaleuca''. History ''Asteromyrtus'' was described as a genus in 1843. The genus was subsequently subsumed into ''Melaleuca'' and '' Sinoga'', but was reinstated by Lyndley Craven in 1988 to accommodate seven species, all of which are tropical shrubs or small trees native to New Guinea, Maluku, or northern Australia,''Asteromyrtus''. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Kew. in lands peripheral to the Arafura Sea, and |
Homalospermum
''Homalospermum'' is a genus of plants in the myrtle family first described as a genus in 1843. It contains only one known species, ''Homalospermum firmum'', endemic to southwestern Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ....Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. References Myrtaceae Monotypic Myrtaceae genera Myrtales of Australia Endemic flora of Southwest Australia {{Myrtaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunzea
''Kunzea'' is a genus of plants in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Australasia. They are shrubs, sometimes small trees and usually have small, crowded, rather aromatic leaves. The flowers are similar to those of plants in the genus '' Leptospermum'' but differ in having stamens that are longer than the petals. Most kunzeas are endemic to Western Australia but a few occur in eastern Australia and a few are found in New Zealand. The taxonomy of the genus is not settled and is complicated by the existence of a number of hybrids. Description Plants in the genus ''Kunzea'' are shrubs or small trees, usually with their leaves arranged alternately along the branches. The flowers are arranged in clusters near the ends of the branches, which in some species, continue to grow after flowering. The flowers of most species lack a stalk but those that have one are usually solitary or in groups of two or three. In some species, the flowers are surrounded by enlarged bracts. There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptospermum
''Leptospermum'' is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae commonly known as tea trees, although this name is sometimes also used for some species of ''Melaleuca''. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent, but some are native to other parts of the world, including New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Leptospermums all have five conspicuous petals and five groups of stamens which alternate with the petals. There is a single style in the centre of the flower and the fruit is a woody capsule. The first formal description of a leptospermum was published in 1776 by the German botanists Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, but an unambiguous definition of individual species in the genus was not achieved until 1979. Leptospermums grow in a wide range of habitats but are most commonly found in moist, low-nutrient soils. They have important uses in horticulture, in the production of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neofabricia
''Neofabricia'' is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Myrtaceae, first described as a genus in 1788, with the name ''Fabricia''. This, however, was an illegitimate homonym, in other words, someone had already used the name to refer to a very different plant. Therefore, this group in the Myrtaceae was renamed ''Neofabricia''.Clarkson, J.R. & Thompson, J., (1989) A revision of the genus ''Neofabricia'' (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 291-300 The entire genus is endemic to Queensland. ;species # '' Neofabricia mjoebergii'' (Cheel) Joy Thomps. # ''Neofabricia myrtifolia ''Neofabricia'' is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Myrtaceae, first described as a genus in 1788, with the name ''Fabricia''. This, however, was an illegitimate homonym, in other words, someone had already used the name to refer t ...'' (Gaertn.) Joy Thomps. # '' Neofabricia sericisepala'' J.R.Clarkson & Joy Thomps. References External linksFlickr photo [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragonis
''Paragonis grandiflora'' is a plant species, endemic to the Southwest Australia, southwest of Western Australia. Taxonomy ''Paragonis grandiflora'' was described as ''Agonis grandiflora'' by George Bentham in 1867, and remained so until it was segregated in 2007 to a monotypic genus, ''Paragonis'', by Judy Wheeler and Neville Graeme Marchant, Neville Marchant. Some sources continue to place it in ''Agonis''. Description A shrub, growing to a height around one metre, with many stems in an erect and open habit. Flowers are white to pink, appearing between July and August to November. The species occurs on a variety of gravel or stony soils and clays over granite or laterite. References {{Authority control Rosids of Western Australia Plants described in 2007 Plants described in 1867 Monotypic Myrtaceae genera Endemic flora of Southwest Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pericalymma
''Pericalymma'' is a group of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 1840. The entire genus is endemic to Western Australia. ;Species # '' Pericalymma crassipes'' (Lehm.) Schauer # ''Pericalymma ellipticum'' (Endl.) Schauer # '' Pericalymma megaphyllum'' Cranfield # '' Pericalymma spongiocaule'' Cranfield ;formerly included now in ''Kunzea'' # ''Pericalymma × roseum'' Turcz. - '' Kunzea × rosea'' (Turcz.) Govaerts # ''Pericalymma teretifolium'' Turcz. - ''Kunzea pauciflora ''Kunzea pauciflora'', the Mount Melville kunzea, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to a small area on the south coast of Western Australia. It is a shrub with the stems densely branched near their e ...'' Schauer References Myrtaceae genera Endemic flora of Western Australia {{Myrtaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxandria (plant)
''Taxandria'' is a group of plants in the family Myrtaceae described as a genus in 2007. The entire genus is endemic (ecology), endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the Southwest Australia, South West corner of the States and territories of Australia, State. Most species of ''Taxandria'' generally growing as tall shrubs, but ''Taxandria juniperina'' grows to tree size (up to 27m) and ''Taxandria linearifolia'' can grow as a small tree (up to 5m in height). ;species References Taxandria (plant), Rosids of Western Australia Myrtaceae genera Myrtales of Australia Endemic flora of Southwest Australia {{Australia-rosid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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