Pomax

Pomax umbellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Rubioideae
Tribe:	Anthospermeae
Genus:	Pomax; Sol. ex DC.
Species:	P. umbellata
Binomial name
	Pomax umbellata; (Gaertn.) Sol. ex A.Rich.
Synonyms
	Synonyms of Pomax umbellata: Opercularia lamarckiana Schult. & Schult.f. ; Opercularia umbellata Gaertn. ; Pomax glabra DC. ; Pomax hirta DC. ; Pomax rupestris F.Muell. ; Pomax umbellata var. carnosula Domin ; Pomax umbellata var. glabra (DC.) Domin ; Pomax umbellata var. hirta (DC.) Domin ; Pomax umbellata var. mitchelliana Domin ; Pomax umbellata var. ovatifolia Domin ;

Pomax is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Pomax umbellata, found in Australia, is the sole species of the genus. The genus was created in 1830, by the Swiss taxonomist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and published in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Pomax umbellata was first described as Opercularia umbellata by Joseph Gaertner in 1788.^[7]^[8] but was transferred to the genus, Pomax by Daniel Solander in 1834.^[7]^[9]

References

^ "Pomax umbellata (Gaertn.) Sol. ex A.Rich". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
^ "Pomax DC". FloraBase - Western Australia. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
^ "Pomax umbellata". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
^ Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, ISBN 978-0-7318-1211-0 page 207
^ "Pomax". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
^ Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle, ed. (September 1830), Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis [...] Pars quarta: Sistens Calyciflorarum Ordines X (in Latin), vol. 4, Paris, Strasbourg, London: Treuttel et Würtz, p. 615, Wikidata Q51522710
^ ^a ^b "Pomax umbellata". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
^ Gaertner, Joseph (1788), De fructibus et seminibus plantarum. [Volumen Primum] (in Latin), Stutgardiae : Sumtibus auctoris ; Typis Academiae Carolinae, pp. 112, t. 24, Fig. 4, Wikidata Q51480047
^ Richard, A. (1834), Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (in French), vol. 5, p. 146

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