Biology:Sprengelia
| Sprengelia | |
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| Sprengelia incarnata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epacridoideae |
| Tribe: | Cosmelieae |
| Genus: | Sprengelia Sm.[1] |
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Sprengelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus Sprengelia are slender, erect or low-lying shrubs with overlapping, stem-clasping leaves, many bracts at the base of the flowers, the sepals egg-shaped, white or coloured, the five petals with spreading lobes, and the fruit a capsule.[2][3][4]
The genus Sprengelia was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar,[5][6] later published in translation in Tracts relating to natural history.[7] The first species described was Sprengelia incarnata.[5][6] The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel.[8]
The names of seven species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:[9]
- Sprengelia distichophylla (Rodway) W.M.Curtis (Tas.)
- Sprengelia incarnata Sm. - pink swamp-heath (S.A., N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)
- Sprengelia minima Crowden (Tas.)
- Sprengelia montana R.Br. (Tas.)
- Sprengelia monticola (DC.) Druce - rock sprengelia (N.S.W)
- Sprengelia propinqua A.Cunn. ex DC. (Tas.)
- Sprengelia sprengelioides (R.Br.) Druce (Qld., N.S.W.)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/96534. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ↑ Albrecht, David A.. "Sprengelia"". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/734fd369-4665-489f-a99f-45ee8f59c51f.
- ↑ Powell, Jocelyn M.. "Sprengelia". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&showsyn=&dist=&constat=&lvl=gn&name=Sprengelia.
- ↑ "Sprengelia". State Herbarium of South Australia. http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Sprengelia.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Name Index. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/521174. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Smith, James Edward (1794). "Sprengelia et nytt Orteflugte.". Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 15: 261–264. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180081#page/281/mode/1up. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ↑ Smith, James Edward (1798). Tracts relating to natural history. London. pp. 269–274. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49223072#page/291/mode/1up. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC world dictionary of plant names : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 2543. ISBN 0849326737.
- ↑ "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/taxonomy?product=APC&tree.id=&name=Sprengelia&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&max=100&display=&search=true. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
Wikidata ☰ Q73572 entry
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