Adriana
Adriana tomentosa (female flowers)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Acalypheae
Subtribe: Adrianinae
Genus: Adriana
Gaudich.
Type species
Adriana tomentosa
Synonyms[2]
  • Meialisa Raf.
  • Trachycaryon Klotzsch

Adriana is a genus of shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1825.[2][3] The entire genus is endemic to Australia.[4]

Species[5]
  1. Adriana quadripartita (Labill.) Mull.Arg. - South Australia, Victoria, southern Western Australia
  2. Adriana tomentosa Gaudich.- All mainland states
  3. Adriana urticoides (A.Cunn.) Guymer ex P.I.Forst. - Northern Territory plus all states except Tasmania

The genus name of Adriana is in honour of Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), a French botanist.[6]

References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by Pfeiffer, Nom. 1: 60 (1873).
  2. 1 2 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Gaudichaud-Beaupré, Charles. 1825. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 5: 223 in Latin
  4. ↑ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. ↑ "Adriana". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  6. ↑ 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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