Gilesia

Gilesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Gilesia
F.Muell. (1875)
Species:
G. biniflora
Binomial name
Gilesia biniflora
F.Muell. (1875)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Hymenocapsa J.M.Black (1925)
  • Corchorus longipes Tate (1898)
  • Hermannia gilesii F.Muell. (1875), pro syn.
  • Hymenocapsa longipes J.M.Black (1925)
  • Mahernia gilesii F.Muell. (1875), nom. provis.

Gilesia biniflora is species of flowering plant belonging to the family Malvaceae.[2] It is commonly known as the 'western tar-vine'.[3] It is the sole species in genus Gilesia.[1] It is in the Byttnerioideae subfamily.[3]

Its native range is the deserts and dry shrublands of central Australia, including portions of New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.[2]

It is named in honour of Christopher Giles (c. 1840 – 1917), an English surveyor, and Ernest Giles (1835–1897) an Australian explorer.[4] The specific Latin epithet of biniflora is derived from the Latin bīnus (“double, twofold”) and also 'flora' meaning plant. It was first described and published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae (Fragm.) Vol.9 on page 42 in 1875.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gilesia F.Muell. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Gilesia biniflora F.Muell. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b "The Hermannia Pages: Western Tar Vine". www.malvaceae.info. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  4. ^ 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.