''Aphelia'' is a genus of plants in the

Restionaceae The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Following the APG IV (2016): the family now includes the former famil ...

family. The entire genus is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

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APG III system The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a f ...

classifies this genus in the Centrolepidaceae family.

Species

* '' Aphelia brizula'' F.Muell. - Western Australia * '' Aphelia cyperoides'' R.Br. - Western Australia * '' Aphelia drummondii'' (Hieron.) Benth - Western Australia * '' Aphelia gracilis'' Sond. - South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria * '' Aphelia nutans'' Hook.f. ex Benth - Western Australia * '' Aphelia pumilio'' F.Muell. ex Sond. - South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

References

Poales genera Restionaceae Endemic flora of Australia {{Poales-stub