Sprengelia

<i>Sprengelia</i>

Sprengelia

Family of shrubs

Sprengelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus Sprengelia are slender, erect or low-lying shrubs with overlapping, stem-clasping leaves, many bracts at the base of the flowers, the sepals egg-shaped, white or coloured, the five petals with spreading lobes, and the fruit a capsule.[2][3][4]

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The genus Sprengelia was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar,[5][6] later published in translation in Tracts relating to natural history.[7] The first species described was Sprengelia incarnata.[5][6] The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel.[8]

The names of seven species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:[9]

References

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    "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
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    Albrecht, David A. "Sprengelia"". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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    Powell, Jocelyn M. "Sprengelia". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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    "Sprengelia". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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    "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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    Smith, James Edward (1794). "Sprengelia et nytt Orteflugte". Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar. 15: 261–264. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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    Smith, James Edward (1798). Tracts relating to natural history. London. pp. 269–274. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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    Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC world dictionary of plant names : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 2543. ISBN 0849326737.
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    "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
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