Labichea

Labichea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 16 species of shrubs native to northern Australia – Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Typical habitats are tropical and seasonally-dry, and include rocky sandstone ravines, coastal sand dunes, desert, and semi-arid woodland and dry scrub, generally on granite or sandstone substrates.[1] It belongs to the subfamily Dialioideae.[2]

Labichea
Labichea lanceolata Benth.
Labichea lanceolata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Dialioideae
Genus: Labichea
Gaudich. ex DC. (1825)
Species[1]

16; see text

The genus consists of the following species:[1]

  • Labichea brassii C.T.White & W.D.Francis
  • Labichea buettneriana F.Muell.
  • Labichea cassioides DC.
  • Labichea deserticola J.H.Ross
  • Labichea digitata Benth.
  • Labichea eremaea C.A.Gardner
  • Labichea lanceolata Benth.
  • Labichea mulliganensis A.R.Bean
  • Labichea nitida Benth.
  • Labichea obtrullata J.H.Ross
  • Labichea punctata Lindl.
  • Labichea rossii N.Gibson
  • Labichea rupestris Benth.
  • Labichea saxicola J.H.Ross
  • Labichea stellata J.H.Ross
  • Labichea teretifolia C.A.Gardner

References
  1. "Labichea Gaudich. ex DC". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  2. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
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