Abrophyllum
| Abrophyllum | |
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| Leaves and fruits of Abrophyllum ornans at Elvina Bay, Australia. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Rousseaceae |
| Genus: |
Abrophyllum Hook. f. ex Benth. |
| Species: | A. ornans |
| Binomial name | |
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Abrophyllum ornans Hook. f. |
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Abrophyllum (Syn.: Brachynema F.Muell.) is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Saxifragaceae sensu lato according to Engler, A. in Engler & Prantl and Schulze-Menz, G. K. in Melchior, 1964; placed in Subfamily Escallonioideae, Tribe Cuttsieae, it is closely related to Cuttsia. In the APG II system Abrophyllum is placed in family Rousseaceae.
The sole species is Abrophyllum ornans. Its common name is Native Hydrangea, but it does not have great affinity with the true Hydrangea.
It is also classified in Escalloniaceae (by Hutchinson 1967; Dahlgren; Thorne), Grossulariaceae (Cronquist 1988), Carpodetaceae (APG I 1998, Kubitzki 2007), Rousseaceae (APG II 2003, Shipunov 2005, Thorne & Reveal 2007 and Heywood et al. 2007), or even in its own family Abrophyllaceae Nakai (Reveal and Takhtajan 1997).
It is native to Australia (New South Wales and Queensland). Its habitat is warm-temperate and subtropical rainforest, especially along smaller watercourses or in gullies on poorer soils. The natural range of distribution is from the Illawarra of New South Wales to the McIlwraith Range in far north eastern Australia.
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