Biology:Coleanthera

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Coleanthera
Coleanthera myrtoides (8694921525).jpg
Coleanthera myrtoides
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Subfamily: Epacridoideae
Tribe: Styphelieae
Genus: Coleanthera
Stschegl.
Synonyms[1]

Michiea F.Muell.

Coleanthera is a plant genus in the family Ericaceae.[2] The genus is endemic to Western Australia,[1] and is currently accepted (1 January 2021) by Plants of the World online,[1] and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria,[2] but not by the Western Australian Herbarium, where it has been subsumed into the genus, Styphelia,[3] for the phylogenetic reasons given by Darren M. Crayn, Michael Hislop and Caroline Puente-Lelièvre.[4]

It was first described in 1859 by Sergei Sergeyevich Sheglejev,[2][5] and the type species is Coleanthera myrtoides.[6]

Description

The fruit is a 5-celled drupe.[7] The flowers are hermaphroditic and are fertilised by either insects or birds.[7] The calyces of plants in this genus have five sepals and there are five petals.[7]

Species

There are three accepted species in the genus:[1]

  • Coleanthera coelophylla (A.Cunn. ex DC.) Benth.
  • Coleanthera myrtoides Stschegl.
  • Coleanthera virgata Stschegl.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5776703 entry