Coleanthera

Coleanthera is a plant genus in the family Ericaceae.[2] The genus is endemic to Western Australia,[1] and is currently accepted (1 January 2021) by Plants of the World online,[1] and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria,[2] but not by the Western Australian Herbarium, where it has been subsumed into the genus, Styphelia,[3] for the phylogenetic reasons given by Darren M. Crayn, Michael Hislop and Caroline Puente-Lelièvre.[4]

Coleanthera
Coleanthera myrtoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Styphelioideae
Tribe: Styphelieae
Genus: Coleanthera
Stschegl.
Synonyms[1]

Michiea F.Muell.

It was first described in 1859 by Sergei Sergeyevich Sheglejev,[2][5] and the type species is Coleanthera myrtoides.[6]

Description

The fruit is a 5-celled drupe.[7] The flowers are hermaphroditic and are fertilised by either insects or birds.[7] The calyces of plants in this genus have five sepals and there are five petals.[7]

Species

There are three accepted species in the genus:[1]

  • Coleanthera coelophylla (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Benth.
  • Coleanthera myrtoides Stschegl.
  • Coleanthera virgata Stschegl.

References
  1. "Coleanthera Stschegl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  2. "Coleanthera Stschegl." Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  3. "Name currency: Coleanthera Stschegl." FloraBase. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Darren M. Crayn; Michael Hislop; Caroline Puente-Lelièvre (2020). "A phylogenetic recircumscription of Styphelia (Ericaceae, Epacridoideae, Styphelieae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 33 (2): 137–168. doi:10.1071/SB18050. ISSN 1030-1887. Wikidata Q102898970.
  5. Stschegleew, S.S. (1859). "Descriptio Epacridearum Novarum". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 32 (1): 4.
  6. Darren Crayn; Kathleen Kron; Benjamin Potter (11 November 2014). "Typification of some names in Epacridoideae (Ericaceae)". Telopea: 319–321. doi:10.7751/TELOPEA20147924. ISSN 0312-9764. Wikidata Q54533022.
  7. "Coelanthera". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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