Monotaxis (plant)
Appearance
Monotaxis | |
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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] | |
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]
- Monotaxis bracteata Nees ex Klotzsch - Western Australia
- Monotaxis grandiflora Endl. - Western Australia
- Monotaxis linifolia Brongn. - New South Wales
- Monotaxis luteiflora F.Muell. - Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
- Monotaxis macrophylla Benth. - Queensland, New South Wales
- Monotaxis occidentalis Endl. - Western Australia
- Monotaxis paxii Grüning - Western Australia
- Monotaxis tenuis Airy Shaw - N Western Australia, N Northern Territory
References
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- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore. 1829 in Duperrey, Louis Isodore, Voyage Autour du Monde 223
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ 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.