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}}Coopernookia is a plant genus of understory xerophytes and heathland mesophytes in the Goodeniaceae family.[2] Species are distributed in southwestern and southeastern Australia. Some species are threatened with habitat loss.
Description
Coopernookia species are small shrublets. Leaves are covered either with varnish or an indumentum of stellate hairs. They differ from other Goodeniaceae in chromosome number and in having seeds with an oily appendage. The flowers are only weakly zygomorphic, while strongly so in most members of the family.
Taxonomy
As a newly formed genus in 1968, Coopernookia was first published in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 92: 209. 1968., by botanist Roger Charles Carolin. Coopernookia was separated from several species that were originally placed in the genus Goodenia by botanist Robert Brown. The type was originally Goodenia barbata R.Br., now Coopernookia barbata (R.Br.) Carolin.[ This makes G. barbata (first described and published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae van-Diemen 576. 1810.) a synonym of, and the basionym to, C. barbata.[4][5] G. cistifolia A.Cunn. ex DC. is also a synonym of C. barbata.[5] The generic name Coopernookia is a toponym derived from Coopernook State Forest in New South Wales.[2]]
Species
- Coopernookia barbata (R.Br.) Carolin (type)
- Coopernookia chisholmii (Blakely) Carolin
- Coopernookia georgei Carolin
- Coopernookia polygalacea (de Vriese) Carolin
- Coopernookia scabridiuscula Carolin
- Coopernookia strophiolata (F.Muell.) Carolin
List sources : [4],[9]
References
1. ^1 2 {{ cite web |url=http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/22139 |title=Coopernookia Carolin |author=J. Gathe and Leslie Watson |work=FloraBase |publisher=Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Environment and Conservation of the Government of Western Australia |date=3 October 2008 |accessdate=9 November 2012}}
2. ^1 2 {{ cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2830459 |title=Goodenia barbata |work=The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet) |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden |year=2010 |accessdate=9 November 2012}}
3. ^1 2 {{ cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2735777 |title='Coopernookia barbata |work=The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet) |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden |year=2010 |accessdate=9 November 2012}}
4. ^1 {{ cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/search?q=Coopernookia |title=Coopernookia |work=The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet) |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden |year=2010 |accessdate=9 November 2012}}