Walwhalleya Explained

Walwhalleya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.[1] [2] All members use C3 photosynthesis [3]

It is native to the states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria in Australia.

Known species

As accepted by Kew:

Taxonomy

The genus name of Walwhalleya is in honour of Ralph Derwyn Broughton Whalley (b. 1933), an Australian botanist and specialist in grasses.[4] [5] It was first described and published in Austral. Syst. Bot. Vol.19 on page 327 in 2006.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Walwhalleya Wills & J.J.Bruhl Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 13 March 2021 . en.
  2. Zuloaga F.O., Salariato D.L. & Scataglini A. (2018). Molecular phylogeny of Panicum s. str. (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) and insights into its biogeography and evolution PLoS ONE 13(2, e0191529): 1-39.
  3. Wills . Karen E. . Whalley . R. D. B. . Bruhl . Jeremy J. . Systematic studies in Paniceae (Poaceae): Homopholis and Whalleya gen. et sp. nov. . Australian Systematic Botany . 2000 . 13 . 3 . 437 . 10.1071/SB99007.
  4. 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 . 1 January 2021.
  5. Whalley, Ralph Derwyn Broughton (Wal). Biographical notes.Council of Heads of Australasian Herbariahttps://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/whalley-ralph-derwyn-broughton.html

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