Babingtonia

Babingtonia is a genus of 11 species of flowering plants in the myrtle fmily, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Plants in the genus Babingtonia are glabrous shrubs with simple linear, lance-shaped or elliptic leaves with white flowers arranged singly or in groups of three to seven, in leaf axils.

Babingtonia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Chamelaucieae
Genus: Babingtonia
Lindl.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Baeckea sect. Babingtonia (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f.

Description

Plants in the genus Babingtonia are glabrous shrubs, sometimes up to 5 m (16 ft) high, with scaly or fibrous bark. The leaves are simple, arranged in opposite pairs, linear, lance-shaped or elliptic, with oil glands usually only visible on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to seven in leaf axils and are bisexual, radially symmetrical, and have five sepals and five petals. The petals are white, more or less round, 1–6 mm (0.039–0.236 in) wide and have between three and fiteen stamens in a single whorl. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical to bowl-shaped capsule with the remains of the sepals attached.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus Babingtonia was first formally described in 1842 by John Lindley in Edwards's Botanical Register. Lindley nominated Babingtonia camphorosmae, (previously known as Baeckea camphorosmae Endl.) as the type species.[3] The name Babingtonia honours Charles Babington.[4]

Many species formerly placed in the genus are currently included in Sannantha, Baeckea, Oxymyrrhine, Kardomia, Seorsus and Harmogia.[5]

Species list

The following is a list of species of Babingtonia accepted by the Australian Plant Census as of September 2023:[6]

References
  1. "Babingtonia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  2. Bean, Anthony R. (1997). "Reinstatement of the genus Babingtonia Lindl. (Myrtaceae, Leptospermoideae)". Austrobaileya. 4 (4): 631–632. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  3. "Babingtonia". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  4. Lindley, John (1842). "Babingtonia". Edwards's Botanical Register. 28: 10. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  5. Babingtonia species list. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
  6. "Babingtonia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.