Guichenotia

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Malvales

Familia: Malvaceae
Subfamilia: Byttnerioideae
Tribus: Lasiopetaleae
Genus: Guichenotia
Species: G. alba – G. angustifolia – G. anota – G. apetala – G. asteriskos – G. astropletha – G. basivirida – G. glandulosa – G. impudica – G. intermedia – G. ledifolia – G. macrantha – G. micrantha – G. quasicalva – G. sarotes – G. seorsiflora – G. tuberculata
Name

Guichenotia J.Gay, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 448, t. 20. (1821)

Type species: Guichenotia ledifolia J.Gay, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 449, t. 20. (1821)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Ditomostrophe Turcz.
Sarotes Lindl.

References

Gay, J. 1821. Mémoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 7: 448, t. 20.
Guichenotia in: Australian Plant Census (APC) 2020. IBIS database, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Accessed: 2020 Dec. 21.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Guichenotia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Dec. 19. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2020. Guichenotia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Dec. 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Guichenotia. Published online. Accessed: Dec. 19 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Guichenotia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Dec. 19.

Guichenotia is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plant which are endemic to the south west of Western Australia.

The genus name honours Antoine Guichenot, gardener's boy on the 1801–1803 French scientific voyage to Australia under Nicolas Baudin. Guichenot was poorly educated, with poor literacy skills and little knowledge of plants, yet worked extremely hard, collecting more plant specimens than the officially appointed botanist, Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, and, despite his poor literacy, labelling them with much more useful annotations.[1]

Species include:

Guichenotia alba Keighery
Guichenotia angustifolia (Turcz.) Druce
Guichenotia apetala A.S.George
Guichenotia asteriskos C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia astropletha C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia basivirida C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia glandulosa C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia impudica C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia intermedia C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia ledifolia J.Gay
Guichenotia macrantha Turcz. - Large-flowered guichenotia
Guichenotia micrantha (Steetz) Benth. - Small-flowered guichenotia
Guichenotia quasicalva C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia sarotes Benth.
Guichenotia seorsiflora C.F.Wilkins
Guichenotia tuberculata C.F.Wilkins

References

Nelson, E. Charles (1976). "Antoine Guichenot and Adenanthos (Proteaceae) specimens collected during Baudin's Australian Expedition, 1801-1803". Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. 8 (1): 1–10. doi:10.3366/jsbnh.1976.8.PART_1.1. ISSN 0260-9541.

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI): Guichenotia
FloraBase - the Western Australian flora: Guichenotia