Platysace
| Platysace | |
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| Platysace lanceolata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Platysace Bunge[1] |
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Platysace is a
Description
Plants in the genus Platysace are woody perennial herbs, shrubs or subshrubs and have simple or lobed leaves. The flowers are borne on the ends of branches in a compound umbel with small bracts and bracteoles but that sometimes fall off as the flowers open. The flowers are bisexual or male, sometimes without sepals, and have white, cream-coloured or pinkish, elliptical to egg-shaped petals. The fruit has 2 compressed mericarps.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy
The genus Platysace was first described in 1845 by Alexander von Bunge in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae, and the first species he described (the type species) was Platysace cirrosa.[6][7]
A 2021 molecular phylogenetic study suggested that it is sister to rest of the family Apiaceae, and so does not belong to any of the four subfamilies into which the family is divided. It has been suggested that it could be placed in a subfamily of its own.[8]
Species
The following is a list of species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at March 2024:[9]
- Platysace arnhemica Specht
- Bunge– karna (W.A.)
- Platysace clelandii (Maiden & Betche) L.A.S.Johnson (N.S.W.)
- Turcz.) C.Norman(W.A.)
- Labill.) C.Norman (tapeworm plant) (W.A.)
- Platysace deflexa (Turcz.) C.Norman (W.A.)
- Platysace effusa (Turz.) C.Norman (W.A.)
- Spreng.) C.Norman (Qld., N.S.W., Vic.)
- Platysace filiformis (Bunge) C.Norman (W.A.)
- Benth.) C.Norman
- Platysace heterophylla (Benth.) C.Norman
- Platysace heterophylla (Benth.) C.Norman var. heterophylla
- Platysace heterophylla var. tepperi (J.M.Black) H.Eichler
- Platysace juncea (Bunge) C.Norman
- Platysace lanceolata (Labill.) Druce (shrubby platysace)
- Cav.) C.Norman
- Platysace maxwellii (F.Muell.) C.Norman (karno)
- Platysace pendula (Benth.) C.Norman
- Platysace ramosissima (Benth.) C.Norman
- Platysace saxatilis Keighery
- Platysace stephensonii (Turcz.) C.Norman
- Platysace trachymenioides F.Muell.
- Platysace valida (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
- E.Pritz.) L.A.S.Johnson
References
- ^ a b "Platysace". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Genus Platysace ". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ "Platysace". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ Duretto, Mark F. "Platysace". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Platysace". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Platysace". APNI. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ von Bunge, Alexander (1845). Lehmann, Johann G.C.; Preiss, Ludwig (eds.). Plantae preissianae sive enumeratio plantarum quas in australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali annis 1838-1841 collegit Ludovicus Preiss. Vol. 1. Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. pp. 285–286. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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- ^ "Platysace". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 3 March 2024.