Gilesia

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Gilesia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Gilesia
F.Muell.
Synonyms
  • Corchorus longipes Tate
  • Hymenocapsa longipes J.M.Black

Gilesia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.[1] It is also in the Byttnerioideae subfamily and it only contains one species, Gilesia biniflora F.Muell.[2] It is commonly known as the 'western tar-vine'.[3]

Its native range is central Australia.[1]

It is named in honour of Christopher Giles (c. 1840 – 1917), an English surveyor, and Ernest Giles (1835–1897) an Australian explorer.[4] The specific Latin epithet of biniflora is derived from the Latin bīnus (“double, twofold”) and also 'flora' meaning plant. It was first described and published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae (Fragm.) Vol.9 on page 42 in 1875.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Gilesia F.Muell. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Gilesia biniflora F.Muell. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  3. ^ "The Hermannia Pages: Western Tar Vine". www.malvaceae.info. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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