Sprengelia
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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.[1][2][3]
The genus Sprengelia was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar,[4][5] later published in translation in Tracts relating to natural history.[6] The first species described was Sprengelia incarnata.[4][5] The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel.[7]
The names of seven species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:[8]
- Sprengelia distichophylla (Rodway) W.M.Curtis (Tas.)
- Sprengelia incarnata Sm. - pink swamp-heath (S.A., N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)
- Sprengelia minima Crowden (Tas.)
- Sprengelia montana R.Br. (Tas.)
- Sprengelia monticola (DC.) Druce - rock sprengelia (N.S.W)
- Sprengelia propinqua A.Cunn. ex DC. (Tas.)
- Sprengelia sprengelioides (R.Br.) Druce (Qld., N.S.W.)
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