Roycea | |
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Roycea pycnophylloides | |
Scientific classification | |
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]
(listed by both Plants of the World online, [4] and FloraBase.) [5]
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Maireana is a genus of around 57 species of perennial shrubs and herbs in the family Amaranthaceae which are endemic to Australia. Species in this genus were formerly classified within the genus Kochia. The genus was described in 1840 by the botanist, Moquin-Tandon and named to honour Joseph François Maire (1780-1867), an amateur botanist who befriended him during the author's first visit to Paris in 1834.
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Daviesia hakeoides, is a spiny shrub species in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia. It grows to from 0.2 to 1 metre high and has yellow/orang/red/brown pea flowers, produced between May and September in the species' native range. It grows in gravelly soils, sand and granite on stony hills, sandplains and flats.
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Roycea pycnophylloides, commonly known as Saltmat, is a species of shrub endemic to Western Australia. It has no synonyms.