Abrotanella

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Abrotanella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
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 Petrie ex Kirk -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella christenseni. New Zealand.
  • Abrotanella crassipes. Juan Fernández Islands
  • Abrotanella diemii Argentina
  • Abrotanella emarginata(Gaudich.) Cass. -- Falkland Islands
  • Abrotanella fertilis Swenson -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella filiformis Benth. -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella forsteroides. New Zealand and Australia: Tasmania on Tasmanian bolster heaths
  • Abrotanella inconspicua Hook.f. -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella linearifolia A.Gray -- Argentina and Chile: Tierra del Fuego
  • Abrotanella linearis Bergg. -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella moseleyi Kirk -- Argentina
  • Abrotanella muscosa. New Zealand
  • Abrotanella nivigena (F.Muell.) F.Muell. Australia
  • Abrotanella papuana. New Guinea
  • Abrotanella patearoa Heads -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella purpurea Swenson -- Chile
  • Abrotanella pusilla Hook.f. -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella rhynchocarpa ?
  • Abrotanella rostrata Swenson -- New Zealand
  • Abrotanella rosulata Hook.f. -- New Zealand: Campbell Islands.
  • Abrotanella scapigera(F.Muell.) Benth. -- Australia: Tasmania.
  • Abrotanella spathulata Hook.f. -- New Zealand: Auckland Islands.
  • Abrotanella submarginata A.Gray -- Argentina and Chile.
  • Abrotanella trichoachaenia Cabrera -- Chile.
  • Abrotanella trilobata Swenson -- Argentina and Chile.

[edit] References

  • Information related to Abrotanella from Wikispecies.
  • 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.
  • Genus Abrotanella (HTML). UniProt Consortium. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
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