Leptinella

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Leptinella

Leptinella gruveri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Anthemideae
Genus:	Leptinella Cass.

Leptinella is a genus^[1] of alpine flowering plant in the Asteraceae family, comprising 33 species, distributed in New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the Subantarctic Islands, and South America.^[1]

For over 100 years, Leptinella species were considered part of the genus Cotula, but the genus Leptinella was reinstated by Lloyd & Webb in 1987.^[1] They determined that all species of Leptinella are distinguished from those of the other two sections of Cotula, and other Anthemideae, by the conspicuous "inflated" corollas of the female florets and by chromosome numbers based on x = 26 where known.^[1]

Leptinella squalida 'Platt's Black' is a form cultivated as a garden plant, and is used for ground cover.

Species

L. albida
L. atrata - Black Daisy
L. calcarea
L. dendyi
L. dioica
L. dispersa
L. drummondii
L. featherstonii
L. filicula - Mountain Cotula
L. filiformis
L. goyenii
L. gruveri - Miniature Brass Buttons
L. intermedia
L. lanata
L. longipes
L. maniototo
L. membranacea
L. minor - Alpine Brass Buttons
L. nana
L. pectinata
L. peduncularis
L. plumosa
L. potentillina - Chatham Brass Buttons
L. pusilla - Purple Brass Buttons
L. pyrethrifolia
L. repens
L.rotunda
L. rotundata
L. sariwaketensis
L. scariosa
L. serrulata
L. squalida - New Zealand Brass Buttons
Leptinella tenella
Leptinella traillii
L. wilhelminensis

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lloyd & Webb (1987, 5). "The reinstatement of Leptinella at generic rank, and the status of the 'Cotuleae' (Asteraceae, Anthemideae)". New Zealand Journal of Botany Vol. 25. pp. 99–10. Retrieved 2009-05-24. Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

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