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]
| Adriana | |
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| Adriana tomentosa (female flowers) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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] | |
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- Species[5]
- Adriana quadripartita (Labill.) Mull.Arg. - South Australia, Victoria, southern Western Australia
- Adriana tomentosa Gaudich.- All mainland states
- 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 edit
- ^ lectotype designated by Pfeiffer, Nom. 1: 60 (1873).
- ^ a b World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Gaudichaud-Beaupré, Charles. 1825. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 5: 223 in Latin
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Adriana". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- ^ 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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