Biology:Roycea

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Roycea
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Roycea pycnophylloides
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Camphorosmoideae
Tribe: Camphorosmeae
Genus: Roycea
C.A.Gardner[1][2]
Species

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Roycea is a genus of plants formerly in the family Chenopodiaceae, and now in the Amaranthaceae. The genus was first described in 1948 by Charles Austin Gardner,[1] and the genus name honours Robert Dunlop Royce (a helper at the Perth Herbarium).[2] The entire genus is endemic to Western Australia.[3] There are no synonyms.[1][4]

Species

(listed by both Plants of the World online,[4] and FloraBase.)[5]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q10364766 entry