Barongia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae first described as a genus in 1988.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Barongia lophandra, endemic to the Cook region of Queensland, Australia.[3][4]
Barongia | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Myrtaceae |
Subfamily: | Myrtoideae |
Tribe: | Kanieae |
Genus: | Barongia P.G.Wilson & B.Hyland |
Species: | B. lophandra
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Binomial name | |
Barongia lophandra |
References
edit- ^ Barongia Peter G.Wilson & B.Hyland, Telopea 3: 257-258 (1988)
- ^ Tropicos, Barongia P.G. Wilson & B. Hyland
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.