Bleasdalea
| Bleasdalea | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Bleasdalea F.Muell. |
| Species | |
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Bleasdalea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae.
Taxonomy
Molecular and morphological analysis shows this genus is most closely related to the genus Hicksbeachia, ancestors of the two genera having diverged around 15 million years ago in the Miocene.[1]
Species
The genus comprises two species which are native to north-east Australia and New Guinea:[2]
- Bleasdalea bleasdalei
- Bleasdalea papuana (Diels) Domin
References
- ↑ Austin R. Mast, Crystal L. Willis, Eric H. Jones, Katherine M. Downs, and Peter H. Weston (2008). "A smaller Macadamia from a more vagile tribe: inference of phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and diaspore evolution in Macadamia and relatives (tribe Macadamieae; Proteaceae)". American Journal of Botany 95 (7): 843–70. doi:10.3732/ajb.0700006. PMID 21632410.
- ↑ Weston, Peter H.. and Nigel P. Barker (2008). "A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera". Telopea 11 (3): 339.