| Walteranthus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Gyrostemonaceae |
| Genus: | Walteranthus Keighery |
| Species: | W. erectus |
| Binomial name | |
| Walteranthus erectus Keighery | |
Walteranthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gyrostemonaceae. [1] It only contains one known species, Walteranthus erectus. [2]
It is native to the state of Western Australia. [2] [3] [4]
They are monoecious, [3] (meaning hermaphroditic, with male and female reproductive structures in separate flowers but on the same plant), short-lived shrubs. [5] The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic in shape and somewhat succulent. The male flowers are in axillary racemes with the axis not growing out. [5] They have 9-12 stamens, [3] in 1 whorl. The female flowers are solitary, axillary and they are among the upper males and above them. It has 2-5 carpels, [3] united. The stylodia (an elongate stigma that resembles a style) is erect. The fruit (or seed capsule) is a hard indehiscent, slightly rugulose (finely wrinkled) syncarp. [1] The seeds are faintly rugose (wrinkled). [5]
The genus name of Walteranthus is in honour of Hans Paul Heinrich Walter (b. 1882), a German botanist who worked with Adolf Engler. [6] The Latin specific epithet of erectus means erect or upright. [7] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. Vol.106 on pages 108-110 in 1985. [2]
The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service since 1994, but they do not list any known species. [8]
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