Tersonia

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Tersonia

Fruit of Tersonia cyathiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Brassicales
Family:  | Gyrostemonaceae
Genus:  | Tersonia
Moq.[1]

Tersonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gyrostemonaceae.[2]

It is endemic to Western Australia.[1][3]

## Known species

* Tersonia cyathiflora (Fenzl) A.S.George ex J.W.Green, also known as button creeper.[4]
* Tersonia brevipes Moq., published in 1849,[3]

They all have a syncarps.[2]

## Taxonomy

The genus name of Tersonia is in honour of Joséphine Louise Moquin-Tandon, born de Terson (1819–1890), wife of the French botanist Alfred Moquin-Tandon (Moq), the author of this genus.[5] It was first described and published in Prodr. Vol.13 (Issue 2) on page 40 in 1849.[3]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tersonia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=TERSONIA.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hufford, Larry (November 1996). "Developmental Morphology of Female Flowers of Gyrostemon and Tersonia and Floral Evolution among Gyrostemonaceae". American Journal of Botany 83 (11): 1471–1487.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Tersonia Moq. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31953-1.
4. ↑ "Tersonia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/21396.
5. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

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