Chloanthes
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| Illustration of Chloanthes stoechadis from Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae[3] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Prostantheroideae |
| Genus: | Chloanthes R.Br.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chloanthes stoechadis | |
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Chloanthes is a genus of four species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are shrubs with hairy foliage, blistered or wrinkly leaves and flowers with five petals fused at the base, usually with two "lips".
Description
[edit]Plants in the genus Chloanthes are shrubs with woolly-hairy foliage, erect stems and simple, sessile, decussate or whorled leaves with blistered or wrinkly edges and that more or less hide the branches. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils and are sessile, with bracts and bracteoles. The sepals are fused at the base with five lobes. The five petals are fused at the base with two "lips", the upper lip with two lobes and the lower lip with three, the middle lower lip larger than the others. There are four stamens attached near the middle of the petal tube. The fruit is a drupe with four locules, each containing a single seed.[5][6][7]
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Chloanthes was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[8][9] In 1960, Arthur Allman Bullock nominated C. stoechadis as the type species, because it was "better known" in herbaria than the other species, C. glandulosa included in Brown's descriptions.[2][10]
Species list
[edit]The following is a list of species of Chloanthes accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at May 2021:[11]
- Chloanthes coccinea Bartl. - Western Australia
- Chloanthes glandulosa R.Br. - New South Wales
- Chloanthes parviflora Walp. - New South Wales, Queensland
- Chloanthes stoechadis R.Br - New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
References
[edit]- ^ "Chloanthes". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Chloanthes". APNI. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ Bauer, Ferdinand (1813). Illustrantiones Florae Novae Hollandiae. London. p. 4. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Conn, Barry J. "Chloanthes". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Chloanthes". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ Munir, Ahmad Abid (1977). "A Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Chloanthes (Chloanthaceae)" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 1 (2): 83–106. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Chloanthes". APNI. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. London. pp. 513–514. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ Bullock, Arthur A. (1960). "Nomenclaturel Notes: XII. The Types of Some Generic Names". Kew Bulletin. 14 (1): 40–iii. Bibcode:1960KewBu..14...40B. doi:10.2307/4115553. JSTOR 4115553. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Chloanthes". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 23 May 2021.