Bleasdalea
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Bleasdalea is a genus of flowering plant
s in the family Proteaceae
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The genus comprises two species which are native to north-east Australia
and New Guinea
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the family Proteaceae
Proteaceae
Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...
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The genus comprises two species which are native to north-east Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
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- Bleasdalea bleasdaleiBleasdalea bleasdaleiBleasdalea papuana is a species of rainforest tree in the Proteaceae family from far north Queensland. First described as Grevillea bleasdalei by Ferdinand von Mueller, it was placed in its current genus in 1975....
- Bleasdalea papuanaBleasdalea papuanaBleasdalea papuana is a species of plant in the Proteaceae family. It is found in West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Eddowes, P.J. 1998. . Downloaded on 20 August 2007....
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