Monotaxis (plant)

Monotaxis
Monotaxis grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Ampereae
Genus: Monotaxis
Brongn.
Synonyms[1]

Monotaxis is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1829.[2][3] The entire genus is endemic to Australia.[1][4]

Species[1]
  1. Monotaxis bracteata Nees ex Klotzsch - Western Australia
  2. Monotaxis grandiflora Endl. - Western Australia
  3. Monotaxis linifolia Brongn. - New South Wales
  4. Monotaxis luteiflora F.Muell. - Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
  5. Monotaxis macrophylla Benth. - Queensland, New South Wales
  6. Monotaxis occidentalis Endl. - Western Australia
  7. Monotaxis paxii Grüning - Western Australia
  8. Monotaxis tenuis Airy Shaw - N Western Australia, N Northern Territory

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore. 1829 in Duperrey, Louis Isodore, Voyage Autour du Monde 223
  3. ↑ Tropicos
  4. ↑ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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