Monotaxis (plant)

Monotaxis
Monotaxis grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Acalyphoideae
Tribe:	Ampereae
Genus:	Monotaxis Brongn.
Synonyms [1]
Hippocrepandra Mull.Arg. Reissipa Steud. ex Klotzsch

Monotaxis is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1829. ^{[2] [3]} The entire genus is endemic to Australia. ^{[1] [4]}

Species ^[1]

1. Monotaxis bracteata Nees ex Klotzsch - Western Australia
2. Monotaxis grandiflora Endl. - Western Australia
3. Monotaxis linifolia Brongn. - New South Wales
4. Monotaxis luteiflora F.Muell. - Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
5. Monotaxis macrophylla Benth. - Queensland, New South Wales
6. Monotaxis occidentalis Endl. - Western Australia
7. Monotaxis paxii Grüning - Western Australia
8. Monotaxis tenuis Airy Shaw - N Western Australia, N Northern Territory

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore. 1829 in Duperrey, Louis Isodore, Voyage Autour du Monde 223
3. Tropicos
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.