Amblysperma
| Amblysperma | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Amblysperma Benth. |
| Species: | A. spathulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Amblysperma spathulata | |
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Amblysperma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2] It contains a single species, Amblysperma spathulata, common name native gerbera,[3] which is native to the south-west of Western Australia.[4][1]
The species was first described in 1836 by Allan Cunningham as Celmisia spathulata.[5][6] The species epithet, spathulata, is a Latin adjective describing some part of the plant as being spoon-shaped.[7] Genus Amblysperma was described by George Bentham in 1837,[2] in which he placed the species Amblysperma scapigera. In 1882 Ferdinand von Mueller placed A. scapigera in genus Trichocline as T. scapigera.[1] In 1967 James Hamlyn Willis transferred A. spathulata to Trichocline as T. spathulata,[5][8] and T. scapigera was synonymized with T. spathulata.[1] In 2001 David John Nicholas Hind concluded that T. spathulata was distinct from the other species in Trichocline, and placed the species in the revived genus Amblysperma as A. spathulata.[9]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Amblysperma spathulata (A.Cunn. ex DC.) D.J.N.Hind | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
- 1 2 "Amblysperma Benth". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
- ↑ "Trichocline spathulata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ↑ "AVH occurrence data: Trichocline spathulata". avh.ala.org.au. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- 1 2 "Trichocline spathulata". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- ↑ Candolle, A.P. de (1836). Candolle, A.P. de (ed.). "Compositae". Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. 5: 209.
- ↑ "spathulatus,-a,-um". www.plantillustrations.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ↑ Willis, J.H. (1967). "Notes on two species of Western Australian Compositae". Western Australian Naturalist. 10 (7): 157.
- ↑ Hind, D. J. N. "A New Combination in Amblysperma (Compositae: Mutisieae)." Kew Bulletin, vol. 56, no. 3, 2001, pp. 711–13. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/4117699. Accessed 28 March 2026.