Anthocercis, commonly known as tailflower, is a genus of shrubs which are endemic to southern temperate Australia with the center of distribution in the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia.[George et al.. (1982)] All species of Anthocercis contain , and have occasionally caused poisoning in children or been suspected of poisoning stock.[Lagenheim (2003)]
Taxonomy
The
genus, which is placed within the family
Solanaceae, was first formally described by botanist Jacques Labillardière in
Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen, Vol. 2: 19 (1806). The type species of the
genus is
Anthocercis littorea Labill.
Anthocercis lies in the subfamily Nicotianoideae. The genus is considered to be part of the tribe "Anthocercideae," but the monophyly of this grouping has been called into question. The species within Anthocercis, however, form a monophyletic group, and lie sister to all other genera of the "Anthocercidoid clade.".[Garcia, V.F. and R.G. Olmstead, 2003. Phylogenetics of Tribe Anthocercideae (Solanaceae) Based on ndhF and trnL/F Sequence Data. Systematic Botany 28: 609-615]
Etymology
Anthocercis; from the Greek
anthos (a flower) and
kerkis (a ray), in reference to the narrow corolla-lobes.
Species
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Anthocercis angustifolia F.Muell.
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Anthocercis anisantha Endl.
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Anthocercis aromatica C.A.Gardner
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Anthocercis fasciculata F.Muell.
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Anthocercis genistoides Miers
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Anthocercis gracilis George Bentham — Slender tailflower
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Anthocercis ilicifolia Hook. — Red striped yellow tailflower
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Anthocercis intricata F.Muell.
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Anthocercis littorea Labill. — Yellow tailflower
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Anthocercis sylvicola T. D. Macfarl. & Ward.-Johnson
[Macfarlane & Wardell-Johnson (1996)]
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Anthocercis viscosa R.Br. — Sticky tailflower
Hybrids
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Anthocercis tenuipes Gand. (putative hybrid between Duboisia myoporoides R.Br. & Cyphanthera scabrella (Benth.) Miers)
Renamed
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Anthocercis microphylla F.Muell. → Cyphanthera microphylla Miers — Small-leaved anthocercis
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Anthocercis odgersii F.Muell. → Cyphanthera odgersii F.Muell. — Woolly anthocercis
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Anthocercis racemosa F.Muell. → Cyphanthera racemosa (F. Muell.) Haegi
Notes
Bibliography
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, (1982): Flora of Australia. Volume 29: Solanaceae, pp. 6 – 13.
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(2003): Plant Resins, p. 95.
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, (1996): Anthocercis sylvicola (Solanaceae), a rare new species from the tingle forests of Walpole, south western Australia, Nuytsia, Vol. 11, no.1, p. 71-78 : ill.
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