Whyanbeelia

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Whyanbeelia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Tribe: Caletieae
Subtribe: Dissiliariinae
Genus: Whyanbeelia
Airy Shaw & B.Hyland
Species:
W. terrae-reginae
Binomial name
Whyanbeelia terrae-reginae

Whyanbeelia is a genus of plants under the family Picrodendraceae described as a genus in 1976. [1] [2]

There is only one known species, Whyanbeelia terrae-reginae, endemic to the Cook region of the Australian State of Queensland. [3] The epithet "terrae-reginae" is Latin for "from the land of the queen."

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References

  1. Airy Shaw, Herbert Kenneth & Hyland, Bernard Patrick Matthew. 1976. Kew Bulletin 31: 375-376.
  2. Tropicos, Whyanbeelia Airy Shaw & B. Hyland
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families