Abrotanella

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Abrotanella
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.