Lomatia

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Lomatia

L. silaifolia

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Lomatia R.Br.

Species

See text.

Lomatia is a genus of 12 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae. Within the family, they have been placed, alone, in their own subtribe, Lomatiinae according to Johnson & Briggs 1975 classification of the family and subsequently in Flora of Australia (1995). However recent molecular studies suggest their closest relatives are actually the Woody Pears (Xylomelum)

The genus has a Pacific Rim distribution, with members native to eastern Australia and southern South America, forming a part of the Antarctic flora. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to small trees up to 12 m tall.

Selected species

Lomatia arborescens - eastern Australia
Lomatia dentata - Chile
Lomatia ferruginea - Chile, Argentina
Lomatia fraseri - eastern Australia
Lomatia fraxinifolia - Queensland
Lomatia hirsuta - Chile, Peru
Lomatia ilicifolia - eastern Australia
Lomatia myricoides - southeastern Australia
Lomatia polymorpha - Tasmania
Lomatia silaifolia - eastern Australia
Lomatia tasmanica (King's Lomatia) - Tasmania
Lomatia tinctoria - Tasmania

[edit] References

Wilson, AJG, Hewson, HJ, Mowatt, J (1995). "Lomatia", in McCarthy, Patrick (ed.): Flora of Australia: Volume 16: Eleagnaceae, Proteaceae 1. CSIRO Publishing / Australian Biological Resources Study, 374–382. ISBN 0-643-05693-9.

Hoot, SB & Douglas, AW (1998). "Phylogeny of the Proteaceae based on atpB and atpB-rbcL spacer region sequences". Australian Systematic Botany 11: 301–320.

Johnson, LAS & Briggs, BG (1975). "On the Proteaceae – the evolution and classification of a southern family.". Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 70: 83–182.