''Astroloma'' is an endemic
Australia
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genus of around 20 species of
flowering plants in the family
Ericaceae. The majority of the species are
endemic to
Western Australia, but a few species occur in
New South Wales,
Victoria,
Tasmania and
South Australia.
The genus was first described by
Robert Brown in 1810 in
Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.
The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube.
Species include:
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Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC.
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Astroloma cataphractum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' A.J.G.Wilson MS
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Astroloma ciliatum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania a ...
'' (Lindl.) Druce
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Astroloma compactum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' R.Br.
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Astroloma conostephioides
''Stenanthera conostephioides'', commonly known as flame heath, is a species of small shrub that is Endemism, endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It has linear to lance-shaped leaves, red, tubular flowers and green, oval fruit turni ...
'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath
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Astroloma drummondii
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' Sond.
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Astroloma epacridis
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Sou ...
'' (DC.) Druce
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Astroloma foliosum
''Astroloma foliosum'', commonly known as candle cranberry, is a small shrub species in the family Ericaceae. It is endemic to the Perth region in Western Australia.
The species was formally described in 1845 by German botanist Otto Wilhelm Son ...
'' Sond. - Candle cranberry
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Astroloma glaucescens
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Sou ...
'' Sond.
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Astroloma humifusum
''Astroloma humifusum'', commonly known as the native cranberry or cranberry heath, is a small prostrate shrub or groundcover in the heath family Ericaceae. The species is endemic to south-eastern Australia.
Description
''Astroloma humifusum'' g ...
'' (Cav.) R.Br. - Cranberry heath
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Astroloma macrocalyx
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' Sond.
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Astroloma microcalyx
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' Sond.
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Astroloma microdonta
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' Benth.
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Astroloma microphyllum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' Stschegl.
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Astroloma pallidum
''Astroloma pallidum'', commonly known as kick bush, is usually a small, compact shrub in the family Ericaceae. The species is endemic to south-western Western Australia.
Description
''Astroloma pallidum'' is usually a neat, dense, compact shru ...
'' R.Br.
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Astroloma pedicellatum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' A.J.G.Wilson MS
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Astroloma pinifolium
''Astroloma pinifolium'', commonly known as pine heath, is small prostrate shrub or groundcover in the family Ericaceae endemic to eastern Australia.
Taxonomy
It was initially described by the botanist Robert Brown in his 1810 work Prodromus Fl ...
'' (R.Br.) Benth. - Pine heath
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Astroloma recurvum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
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Astroloma stomarrhena
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South ...
'' Sond.
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Astroloma xerophyllum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Sou ...
'' Sond.
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q218908
Ericales of Australia
Endemic flora of Australia
Ericaceae genera