Biology:Agiortia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Agiortia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Epacridoideae
Tribe: Styphelieae
Genus: Agiortia
Quinn

Agiortia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae.[1]

They are native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.[2]

There are three species as follows:

  • Agiortia cicatricata (J.M.Powell) Quinn syn. Leucopogon cicatricatus
  • Agiortia pedicellata (C.T.White) Quinn syn. Leucopogon pedicellatus
  • Agiortia pleiosperma (F.Muell.) Quinn syn. Leucopogon pleiospermus

The genus is closely related to Leucopogon.[1]

The genus name of Agiortia is in honour of Despina (Fanias) Agioritis (1927–1994), an Australian botanist from Innisfail, Queensland.[3] It was first described and published in Australian Systematic Botany in 2005.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Agiortia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=Agiortia. Retrieved 3 March 2012. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Agiortia Quinn | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77070453-1. 
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021. 

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