Adriana (plant) explained

Adriana is a genus of shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1825.^{[1] [2]} The entire genus is endemic to Australia.^[3]

Species^[4]

1. Adriana quadripartita (Labill.) Mull.Arg. - South Australia, Victoria, southern Western Australia
2. Adriana tomentosa Gaudich.- All mainland states
3. Adriana urticoides (A.Cunn.) Guymer ex P.I.Forst. - Northern Territory plus all states except Tasmania

The genus name of Adriana is in honour of Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), a French botanist.^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=3316 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2430109#page/229/mode/1up Gaudichaud-Beaupré, Charles. 1825. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 5: 223
3. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4. Web site: Adriana . 29 May 2011 . Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra.
5. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.