Biology:Amblysperma

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Amblysperma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[1] It contains a single species, Amblysperma spathulata, common name native gerbera,[2] which is native to the south-west of Western Australia.[3][4]

The species was first described in 1836 by Allan Cunningham as Celmisia spathulata.[5][6] The species epithet, spathulata, is a Latin adjective describing some part of the plant as being spoon-shaped.[7] Genus Amblysperma was described by George Bentham in 1837,[1] in which he placed the species Amblysperma scapigera. In 1882 Ferdinand von Mueller placed A. scapigera in genus Trichocline as T. scapigera.[4] In 1967 James Hamlyn Willis transferred A. spathulata to Trichocline as T. spathulata,[5][8] and T. scapigera was synonymized with T. spathulata.[4] In 2001 David John Nicholas Hind concluded that T. spathulata was distinct from the other species in Trichocline, and placed the species in the revived genus Amblysperma as A. spathulata.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Amblysperma Benth.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:7577-1. 
  2. ↑ "Trichocline spathulata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/8251. 
  3. ↑ "AVH occurrence data: Trichocline spathulata". https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Trichocline+spathulata#tab_mapView. Retrieved 2021-07-15. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named powo
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Trichocline spathulata". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/93206. 
  6. ↑ Candolle, A.P. de (1836). Candolle, A.P. de. ed. "Compositae". Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 209. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/151644. 
  7. ↑ "spathulatus,-a,-um". http://www.plantillustrations.org/epithet.php?id_epithet=201798. 
  8. ↑ Willis, J.H. (1967). "Notes on two species of Western Australian Compositae". Western Australian Naturalist 10 (7): 157. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59343611. 
  9. ↑ Hind, D. J. N. "A New Combination in Amblysperma (Compositae: Mutisieae)." Kew Bulletin, vol. 56, no. 3, 2001, pp. 711–13. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/4117699. Accessed 28 March 2026.

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