Harperia

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Harperia

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Restionaceae
Genus:  | Harperia
W.Fitzg. 1904 not Rose 1905 (syn of Ptilimnium in Apiaceae)
Type species
Harperia lateriflora

W.Fitzg.[1]

Harperia is a group of plants in the Restionaceae described as a genus in 1904.[1][2] The entire genus is endemic to the State of Western Australia.[3]

Species[3]

* Harperia confertospicata (Steud.) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson
* Harperia eyreana B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson
* Harperia ferruginipes Meney & Pate
* Harperia lateriflora W.Fitzg.

Name in homonymic genus

In 1905, Rose applied the name Harperia to a plant in the Apiaceae, thus creating an illegitimate homonym. He also created one species name within his genus, i.e.[4][5]

* Harperia nodosa Rose, syn of Harperella nodosa (Rose) Rose or Ptilimnium nodosum (Rose) Mathias or Carum nodosum (Rose) Koso-Pol.[6]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, Harperia W. Fitzg.
2. ↑ Fitzgerald, William Vincent. 1904. Journal of the Western Australia natural history society 1: 34
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. ↑ Rose, Joseph Nelson. 1905. Two new Umbelliferous plants from the Coastal Plain of Georgia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29: 441-442 plus plate III in English with full-page line drawing as illustration
5. ↑ Tropicos, Harperia Rose
6. ↑ Tropicos Harperia nodosa Rose

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