Synaphea
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Synaphea is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the family Proteaceae
. The genus is endemic to Western Australia
.
The name was first published in 1810, devised by Robert Brown from the Greek for union or connection, describing an anomaly in the structure of the flower.
Species include:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
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,...
. The genus is endemic to Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
.
The name was first published in 1810, devised by Robert Brown from the Greek for union or connection, describing an anomaly in the structure of the flower.
Species include:
- Synaphea acutiloba Meisn. - Granite Synaphea
- Synaphea aephynsa A.S.George
- Synaphea bifurcata A.S.George
- Synaphea boyaginensis A.S.George
- Synaphea brachyceras R.Butcher
- Synaphea canaliculata A.S.George
- Synaphea cervifolia A.S.George
- Synaphea constricta A.S.George
- Synaphea cuneata A.S.George
- Synaphea damopsis A.S.George
- Synaphea decorticans Lindl.
- Synaphea decumbens A.S.George
- Synaphea diabolica R.Butcher
- Synaphea divaricata (Benth.) A.S.George
- Synaphea drummondii Meisn.
- Synaphea endothrix A.S.George
- Synaphea favosa R.Br.
- Synaphea flabelliformis A.S.George
- Synaphea flexuosa A.S.George
- Synaphea floribunda A.S.George
- Synaphea gracillima Lindl.
- Synaphea grandis A.S.George
- Synaphea hians A.S.George
- Synaphea incurva A.S.George
- Synaphea interioris A.S.George
- Synaphea intricata A.S.George
- Synaphea lesueurensis A.S.George
- Synaphea macrophylla A.S.George
- Synaphea media A.S.George
- Synaphea nexosa A.S.George
- Synaphea obtusata (Meisn.) A.S.George
- Synaphea odocoileops A.S.George
- Synaphea oligantha A.S.George
- Synaphea otiostigma A.S.George
- Synaphea oulopha A.S.George
- Synaphea pandurata R.Butcher
- Synaphea panhesya A.S.George
- Synaphea parviflora A.S.George
- Synaphea petiolaris R.Br. - Synaphea
- Synaphea pinnata Lindl. - Helena Synaphea
- Synaphea platyphylla A.S.George
- Synaphea polymorpha R.Br. - Albany Synaphea
- Synaphea polypodioides R.Butcher
- Synaphea preissii Meisn.
- Synaphea quartzitica A.S.George
- Synaphea rangiferops A.S.George
- Synaphea recurva A.S.George
- Synaphea reticulata (Sm.) Druce
- Synaphea sparsiflora A.S.George
- Synaphea spinulosa (Burm.f.) Merr.
- Synaphea stenoloba A.S.George
- Synaphea tamminensis A.S.George
- Synaphea trinacriformis R.Butcher
- Synaphea tripartita A.S.George
- Synaphea whicherensis A.S.George
- Synaphea xela R.Butcher