''Dentella'' is a
genus
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of
flowering plant
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s in the
family
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Rubiaceae
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. Most species genus are endemic to Australia, with one species also extending through southeast Asia to subtropical Asia and the southwestern Pacific.
Species
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Dentella asperata''
Airy Shaw
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. He worked at Kew Gardens, as was an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology. The genus '' Airyantha'' is named for him.
Life
A ...
- northern Australia
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Dentella browniana''
Domin - northern Australia
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Dentella concinna''
Airy Shaw
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. He worked at Kew Gardens, as was an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology. The genus '' Airyantha'' is named for him.
Life
A ...
- Burma
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Dentella dioeca''
Airy Shaw
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. He worked at Kew Gardens, as was an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology. The genus '' Airyantha'' is named for him.
Life
A ...
- Australia (
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
)
*''
Dentella minutissima''
C.T.White & W.D.Francis - northern Australia
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Dentella misera''
Airy Shaw
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. He worked at Kew Gardens, as was an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology. The genus '' Airyantha'' is named for him.
Life
A ...
- northern Australia
*''
Dentella pulvinata''
Airy Shaw
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. He worked at Kew Gardens, as was an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology. The genus '' Airyantha'' is named for him.
Life
A ...
- central Australia
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Dentella repens''
( L.) J.R.Forst.
Johann Reinhold Forster (; 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now Tczew, Poland), he attended school in Dirschau and Mar ...
& G.Forst.
Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (; 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Joha ...
- from tropical and subtropical Asia to the south-western Pacific
References
External links
''Dentella'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae genera
Spermacoceae
Flora of Australia
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