Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Embothrieae is a member of the Subfamily Grevilleoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Embothrieae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Proteanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Proteales
Dumortier, 1829
- Family: Proteaceae
(pro-tee-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Grevilleoideae
- Tribe: Embothrieae
- Subfamily: Grevilleoideae
- Family: Proteaceae
(pro-tee-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Order: Proteales
Dumortier, 1829
- Superorder: Proteanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Embothrieae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (7): Buckinghamia · Embothrium · Grevillea · Hakea · Lomatia · Stenocarpus · Telopea
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1,413 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Embothrieae.
Genera
Buckinghamia
Buckinghamia is a small genus of flowering plants, belonging to the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to rainforest areas in northern Queensland in Australia. The genus was named in 1868 by Ferdinand von Mueller in honour of Richard Grenville, the Duke of Buckingham. [more]
Embothrium
Embothrium is a of two to eight species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) in the plant family Proteaceae, native to southern South America, in Chile and adjacent western Argentina and southern Peru; the genus occurs as far south as Tierra del Fuego. Common names include Chilean Firebush in English, and Notro, Ciruelillo, Fosforito in Chilean Spanish. [more]
Grevillea
Grevillea () is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae, native to Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Sulawesi. It was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to trees 35 m tall. Common names include Grevillea, Spider Flower, Silky-oak and Toothbrush. [more]
Hakea
Hakea (Hakea) is a genus of 149 species of shrubs and small trees in the Proteaceae, native to Australia. They are found throughout the country, with the highest species diversity being found in the south west of Western Australia. [more]
Lomatia
Lomatia is a genus of 12 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae. Within the family, they have been placed, alone, in their own subtribe, Lomatiinae according to Johnson & Briggs 1975 classification of the family and subsequently in Flora of Australia (1995). [more]
Stenocarpus
Stenocarpus is a genus of around 25 species of woody trees or shrubs of the family Proteaceae, occurring in rainforests of Eastern and monsoonal areas of Northern and North-Western Australia (9 species) with 2 extending into New Guinea and the Aru Islands, with the greatest diversity occurring in New Caledonia, where the majority which is 12 are found. [more]
Telopea
Telopea can refer to: [more]
At least 16 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Telopea.
More info about the Genus Telopea may be found here.
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