Bleasdalea

Bleasdalea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Subfamily:	Grevilleoideae
Tribe:	Macadamieae
Subtribe:	Gevuininae
Genus:	Bleasdalea; F.Muell.
Species
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Bleasdalea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae.

Taxonomy[]

Molecular and morphological analysis shows this genus is most closely related to the genus Hicksbeachia, ancestors of the two genera having diverged around 15 million years ago in the Miocene.^[1]

Species[]

The genus comprises two species which are native to north-east Australia and New Guinea:^[2]

Bleasdalea bleasdalei
Bleasdalea papuana (Diels) Domin

References[]

^ Austin R. Mast; Crystal L. Willis; Eric H. Jones; Katherine M. Downs & Peter H. Weston (2008). "A smaller Macadamia from a more vagile tribe: inference of phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and diaspore evolution in Macadamia and relatives (tribe Macadamieae; Proteaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 95 (7): 843–70. doi:10.3732/ajb.0700006. PMID 21632410.
^ Weston, Peter H.. & Nigel P. Barker (2008). "A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera" (PDF). Telopea. 11 (3): 339. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-16.

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[mast08-1] Austin R. Mast; Crystal L. Willis; Eric H. Jones; Katherine M. Downs & Peter H. Weston (2008). "A smaller Macadamia from a more vagile tribe: inference of phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and diaspore evolution in Macadamia and relatives (tribe Macadamieae; Proteaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 95 (7): 843–70. doi:10.3732/ajb.0700006. PMID 21632410.

[Weston-2] Weston, Peter H.. & Nigel P. Barker (2008). "A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera" (PDF). Telopea. 11 (3): 339. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-16.

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