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Halgania
Sign in to saveHalgania is a genus of small shrubs in the family Ehretiaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species that are endemic to Australia. Halgania is named for Emmanuel Halgan, a vice-admiral in the French Navy.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderBoraginales
- FamilyEhretiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 51
- With media
- 32
- Family
- Ehretiaceae
- Collections
- RSA, MEL, NY
- Recorded in
- Australia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Features
- Systematics
- Distribution
- Species
- References
Halgania is a genus of small shrubs in the family Ehretiaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species that are endemic to Australia. Halgania is named for Emmanuel Halgan, a vice-admiral in the French Navy.
==Features== Halgania species are spreading to erect shrubs or subshrubs up to 1.2 m high. Leaves are simple, alternating along the stem and membranaceous or leathery. The leaf margin is entire or toothed to serrate and often revolute. Herbaceous stems and leaves can be glabrous but also covered with glandular hairs, simple or bifurcating (resembling cleats, "dolabriform") hairs. In some species, the surface is also covered with a viscose layer of exudates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halgania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.