Abrotanella

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
iAbrotanella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Abrotanella Cass.
Species

See text.

Abrotanella is a genus in the family Asteraceae, of about 20 species, native to New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and temperate South America.

They are usually small plants, sometimes not reaching more than a few millimeters above the ground, although some form cushions (see bolster heaths) reaching up to a metre in diameter.

[edit] Species

Note: this list includes synonyms. Source: Index Kewensis (at IPNI)

  • Abrotanella caespitosa. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella christenseni. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella crassipes. Juan Fernández Islands.
  • Abrotanella diemii. Argentina.
  • Abrotanella emarginata. Falkland Islands
  • Abrotanella fertilis. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella filiformis. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella forsteroides. New Zealand and Australia: Tasmania on Tasmanian bolster heaths.
  • Abrotanella inconspicua. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella linearifolia. Argentina and Chile: Tierra del Fuego.
  • Abrotanella linearis. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella moseleyi. Argentina.
  • Abrotanella muscosa. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella nivigena. Australia.
  • Abrotanella papuana. New Guinea.
  • Abrotanella patearoa. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella purpurea. Chile.
  • Abrotanella pusilla. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella rhynchocarpa ?
  • Abrotanella rostrata. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella rosulata. New Zealand: Campbell Islands.
  • Abrotanella scapigera. Australia: Tasmania.
  • Abrotanella spathulata. New Zealand: Auckland Islands.
  • Abrotanella submarginata. Argentina and Chile.
  • Abrotanella trichoachaenia. Chile.
  • Abrotanella trilobata. Argentina and Chile.

[edit] References

  • Swenson U. 1995. Systematics of Abrotanella, an amphi-Pacific genus of Asteraceae (Senecioneae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 197. (1-4): 149-193.
  • Wagstaff, Steven J.; Breitwieser, Ilse & Swenson, Ulf 2006. Origin and relationships of the austral genus Abrotanella (Asteraceae) inferred from DNA sequences. Taxon 55(1):95-106.
This Asteraceae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../a/b/r/Abrotanella.html"