Anthocercis

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'''''Anthocercis''''', commonly known as '''tailflower''', is a genus of shrubs which are endemic to southern temperate Australia with the center of distribution in the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia.<ref name="George et al.. 1982">George ''et al.''. (1982)</ref> All species of ''Anthocercis'' contain tropane alkaloids, and have occasionally caused poisoning in children or been suspected of poisoning stock.<ref name="George et al.. 1982" /> Anthocercis is known as the only Solanaceous plant known to produce resin compounds on glandular trichomes.<ref>Lagenheim (2003)</ref>

==Taxonomy== The genus, which is placed within the family Solanaceae, was first formally described by botanist Jacques Labillardière in ''Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen'', Vol. 2: 19 (1806). The type species of the genus is ''Anthocercis littorea'' Labill.

''Anthocercis'' lies in the subfamily Nicotianoideae. The genus is considered to be part of the tribe "Anthocercideae," but the monophyly of this grouping has been called into question. The species within ''Anthocercis'', however, form a monophyletic group, and lie sister to all other genera of the "Anthocercidoid clade.".<ref>Garcia, V.F. and R.G. Olmstead, 2003. Phylogenetics of Tribe Anthocercideae (Solanaceae) Based on ndhF and trnL/F Sequence Data. Systematic Botany 28: 609-615</ref>

==Etymology== '''''Anthocercis'''''; from the Greek '''''anthos''''' (a flower) and '''''kerkis''''' (a ray), in reference to the narrow corolla-lobes.

==Species== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Anthocercis angustifolia'' F.Muell. * ''Anthocercis anisantha'' Endl. * ''Anthocercis aromatica'' C.A.Gardner * ''Anthocercis fasciculata'' F.Muell. * ''Anthocercis genistoides'' Miers * ''Anthocercis gracilis'' Benth. — Slender tailflower * ''Anthocercis ilicifolia'' Hook. — Red striped yellow tailflower * ''Anthocercis intricata'' F.Muell. * ''Anthocercis littorea'' Labill. — Yellow tailflower * ''Anthocercis sylvicola'' T. D. Macfarl. & Ward.-Johnson<ref>Macfarlane & Wardell-Johnson (1996)</ref> * ''Anthocercis viscosa'' R.Br. — Sticky tailflower

===Hybrids=== * ''Anthocercis tenuipes'' Gand. (putative hybrid between Duboisia myoporoides R.Br. & Cyphanthera scabrella (Benth.) Miers)<ref name="George et al.. 1982" />

===Renamed=== * ''Anthocercis microphylla'' F.Muell. → ''Cyphanthera microphylla'' Miers — Small-leaved anthocercis * ''Anthocercis odgersii'' F.Muell. → ''Cyphanthera odgersii'' F.Muell. — Woolly anthocercis * ''Anthocercis racemosa'' F.Muell. → ''Cyphanthera racemosa'' (F. Muell.) Haegi {{div col end}}

==References== === Notes === {{reflist|colwidth=30em}}

===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} * {{aut|George, Alexander S.; Robertson, Sir Rutherford; Briggs, Barbara G. eds. ''et al.''}}, (1982): ''Flora of Australia. Volume 29: Solanaceae'', pp. 6 – 13. * {{aut|Langenheim, Jean H.}} (2003): ''Plant Resins'', p. 95. * {{aut|Macfarlane, T.D.; Wardell-Johnson, Grant}}, (1996): ''Anthocercis sylvicola (Solanaceae), a rare new species from the tingle forests of Walpole, south western Australia'', Nuytsia, Vol. 11, no.1, p. 71-78 : ill. {{refend}}

==External links== {{commons}} * {{APNI | name = Anthocercis Labill. | id = 40930}} * {{FloraBase}}

Category:Nicotianoideae Category:Solanaceae genera Category:Solanales of Australia Category:Eudicots of Western Australia