Guichenotia

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Guichenotia
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Guichenotia ledifolia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Byttnerioideae
Tribe: Lasiopetaleae
Genus: Guichenotia
J.Gay [1]
Synonyms [1]

Guichenotia is a genus of 17 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae that is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. Plants in the genus Guichenotia are shrubs with simple, linear to oblong leaves with leaf-like stipules at the base of the petiole, the flowers bisexual with three bracteoles at the base of the sepals, and five petal-like sepals, the petals sometimes absent. The fruit is a capsule usually containing 15 seeds. [2] [3]

The genus was first formally described in 1821 by Jaques Étienne Gay in Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle . The first species Gay described was Guichenotia ledifolia . [4] [5] The genus name honours Antoine Guichenot, gardener's boy on the 1801–1803 French scientific voyage to Australia under Nicolas Baudin. [6] [7]

Species list

The following species of Guichenotia are accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at 22 March 2022: [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Guichenotia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  2. "Guichenotia". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. Blake, Trevor L. (2021). Lantern bushes of Australia ; Thomasias & allied genera : a field and horticultural guide. Victoria: Australian Plants Society, Keilor Plains Group. pp. 206–209. ISBN   9780646839301.
  4. "Guichenotia". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  5. Gay, Jaques E. (1821). "Monographie des Cinq Genres de Plantes, Lasiopetalees". Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 7: 448. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 84. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. Nelson, E. Charles (1976). "Antoine Guichenot and Adenanthos (Proteaceae) specimens collected during Baudin's Australian Expedition, 1801-1803". Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. 8 (1): 1–10. doi:10.3366/jsbnh.1976.8.PART_1.1. ISSN   0260-9541.
  8. "Guichenotia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 March 2022.