Biology:Pentalepis

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Pentalepis
Pentalepis trichodesmoides (7596890838).jpg
Pentalepis trichodesmoides
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Subtribe: Ecliptinae
Genus: Pentalepis
F.Muell.
Species

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Pentalepis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae which is endemic to Australia and found only in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.[1]

The genus was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1863.[2][3]

Etymology

The genus name, Pentalepis, comes from the Greek for "five" (penta) and "scale" (lepis), and refers to the single whorl of five bracts that surrounds the inflorescence.[4]

Species

There are 6 accepted species:[1]

  • Pentalepis ecliptoides F.Muell.
  • Pentalepis grandis E.W.Cross
  • Pentalepis kakaduensis E.W.Cross
  • Pentalepis linearifolia Orchard
  • Pentalepis trichodesmoides F.Muell.
  • Pentalepis walcottii E.W.Cross

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Pentalepis F.Muell. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:10421-1. 
  2. "Pentalepis". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/70248. 
  3. Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863). "A Record of the Plants collected by Mr Pemberton Walcott and Mr Maitland Brown, in the year 1861, during Mr F. Gregory's Exploring Expedition into North-West Australia". Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal N. Ser 17 (2): 230. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25441984. 
  4. A.E. Orchard, E.W. Cross (2020). "Pentalepis". Flora of Australia (Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment). https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pentalepis. Retrieved 2021-06-06. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6071460 entry