Cymbonotus
| Cymbonotus | |
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| Cymbonotus lawsonianus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Cymbonotus Cassini |
| Type species | |
| Cymbonotus lawsonianus | |
| Species | |
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Cymbonotus lawsonianus Gaudich. (type species) | |
Cymbonotus is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family from southern Australia. Three species are recognised. The type species is C. lawsonianus of eastern Australia, commonly known as bear's ears.
Molecular studies of African genera and C. lawsonianus showed the genus to be very closely related to the genera Arctotis and Haplocarpha, suggesting they must have been dispersed across the Indian Ocean to Australia somehow.[1]
References
- ↑ Robert J. McKenzie4, Elizabeth M. Muller, Amy K. W. Skinner, Per Ola Karis and Nigel P. Barker, R. J.; Muller, E. M.; Skinner, A. K. W.; Karis, P. O.; Barker, N. P. (2006). "Phylogenetic relationships and generic delimitation in subtribe Arctotidinae (Asteraceae: Arctotideae) inferred by DNA sequence data from ITS and five chloroplast regions". American Journal of Botany 93 (8): 1222–35. doi:10.3732/ajb.93.8.1222. PMID 21642186.