Agiortia

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Agiortia
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Agiortia pedicellata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Epacridoideae
Tribe: Styphelieae
Genus: Agiortia
Quinn

Agiortia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. [1]

They are native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. [2]

There are three species as follows:

The genus is closely related to Leucopogon . [1]

The genus name of Agiortia is in honour of Despina (Fanias) Agioritis (1927–1994), an Australian botanist from Innisfail, Queensland. [3] It was first described and published in Australian Systematic Botany in 2005. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Agiortia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Agiortia Quinn | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  3. 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.