Roycea

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Roycea
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Roycea pycnophylloides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Camphorosmoideae
Genus: Roycea
C.A.Gardner [1] [2]
Species

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Roycea is a genus of plants formerly in the Chenopodiaceae family, and now in the Amaranthaceae. The genus was first described in 1948 by Charles Austin Gardner, [1] and the genus name honours Robert Dunlop Royce (a helper at the Perth Herbarium). [2] The entire genus is endemic to Western Australia. [3] There are no synonyms. [1] [4]

Species

(listed by both Plants of the World online, [4] and FloraBase.) [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Roycea". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  2. 1 2 Gardner, C.A. (1948). "Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XII". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 32: 77, t. II.
  3. "Roycea". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. 1 2 "Roycea C.A.Gardner | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. "Roycea (genus & species) FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora". florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. Western Australian HerbariumBiodiversity and Conservation Science. Retrieved 22 March 2020.