''Cheiranthera'' is a

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of ten species of

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s in the family

Pittosporaceae Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants that consists of 200–240 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9 genera. Habitats range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Oceanian, and Australasian realms. ...

and are all

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to Australia. The following is a list of species accepted by the

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as at April 2020: * ''

Cheiranthera alternifolia ''Cheiranthera alternifolia'', commonly known as finger-flower, is a flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae. It is a small shrub with deep bluish-purple flowers, yellow stamens and dull green linear shaped leaves. It is found growing in So ...

E.M.Benn. Eleanor Marion Bennett (born 4 February 1942) (née Scrymgeour) is an Australian botanist who was employed by the Western Australian Herbarium from 1965 to 1970. She collected ''Eucalyptus'' species in the south-west of Western Australia and pu ...

– S.A., (presumed extinct in Vic.) * '' Cheiranthera borealis'' (E.M.Benn.)

L.Cayzer Lindy Webster Cayzer CF (born 25 April 1952) is an Australian botanist. (The Australian Plant Name Index consistently gives her author abbreviation as L.Cayzer.) Early life and education Cayzer was born on 25 April 1952, daughter of Robert ...

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– Qld., N.S.W. * ''

Cheiranthera brevifolia ''Cheiranthera brevifolia'', is a small upright, sparsely branched shrub. It has smooth stems, high and sparsely branched. It grows in gravelly sand, laterite and granite on undulating hillsides near Esperance and Albany in Western Australia ...

F.Muell. Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vic ...

– W.A. * '' Cheiranthera filifolia''

Turcz. Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow ( ru , Николай Степанович Турчанинов, 1796 in Nikitovka, now in Krasnogvardeysky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia – 1863 in Kharkov) was a Russian botanist and plant collector wh ...

– W.A. * '' Cheiranthera linearis'' A.Cunn. ex

Lindl. John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley w ...

– N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic. * '' Cheiranthera parviflora''

Benth. George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...

– W.A. * '' Cheiranthera preissiana'' Putt. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera simplicifolia'' (E.M.Benn.) L.Cayzer & Crisp – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera telfordii'' L.Cayzer & Crisp – N.S.W. * '' Cheiranthera volubilis'' Benth. – S.A.

References

Pittosporaceae Apiales genera Apiales of Australia Taxa named by Allan Cunningham (botanist) {{Australia-asterid-stub