Coopernookia
| Coopernookia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Goodeniaceae |
| Genus: | Coopernookia Carolin[1] |
| Species | |
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Coopernookia is a plant genus of understory xerophytes and mesophytes in the Goodeniaceae family.[2] Species are distributed in south, southwestern, and southeastern Australia. Some species are threatened with habitat loss.
Description
Coopernookia species are small shrublets. Leaves are simple and hairy (in some species hairs may be glandular and/or of a complex structure), arranged alternate, and spiralling. Flowers are hermaphrodite, 5-merous, and formed in whorls (some species with four whorls). Fruits are dehiscent, two-seeded and two-celled valvular capsules, and non-fleshy. Seeds are always oily.[2]
Taxonomy
As a newly formed genus in 1968, Coopernookia was first published in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 92: 209. 1968., by botanist Roger Charles Carolin. Coopernookia was separated from several species that were originally placed in the genus Goodenia by botanist Robert Brown. The type was originally Goodenia barbata R.Br., now Coopernookia barbata (R.Br.) Carolin.[1] This makes G. barbata (first described and published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae van-Diemen 576. 1810.) a synonym of, and the basionym to, C. barbata.[3][4] G. cistifolia A.Cunn. ex DC. is also a synonym of C. barbata.[4] The generic name Coopernookia is a toponym derived from Coopernook State Forest in New South Wales.[2]
Species
- C. barbata (R.Br.) Carolin (type)
- C. chisholmii (Blakely) Carolin
- C. georgei Carolin
- C. polygalacea (de Vriese) Carolin
- C. scabridiuscula Carolin
- C. strophiolata (F.Muell.) Carolin
References
- 1 2 "Name - Coopernookia Carolin". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
Type = Coopernookia barbata (R.Br.) Carolin
- 1 2 3 J. Gathe and Leslie Watson (3 October 2008). "Coopernookia Carolin". FloraBase. Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation of the Government of Western Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- 1 2 "Goodenia barbata". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- 1 2 "'Coopernookia barbata". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ↑ "Coopernookia". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2012.