Adriana (plant)

Adriana
Adriana tomentosa (female flowers)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Acalyphoideae
Tribe:	Acalypheae
Subtribe:	Adrianinae
Genus:	Adriana Gaudich.
Type species
Adriana tomentosa Gaudich. [1]
Synonyms [2]
MeialisaRaf. TrachycaryonKlotzsch

Adriana is a genus of shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1825. ^{[2] [3]} The entire genus is endemic to Australia. ^[4]

Species ^[5]

1. Adriana quadripartita (Labill.) Mull.Arg. - South Australia, Victoria, southern Western Australia
2. Adriana tomentosa Gaudich.- All mainland states
3. Adriana urticoides (A.Cunn.) Guymer ex P.I.Forst. - Northern Territory plus all states except Tasmania

The genus name of Adriana is in honour of Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), a French botanist. ^[6]

References

1. lectotype designated by Pfeiffer, Nom. 1: 60 (1873).
2. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Gaudichaud-Beaupré, Charles. 1825. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 5: 223 in Latin
4. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
5. "Adriana". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
6. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID   187926901 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.