{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox | grandparent_authority = (Pax) Airy Shaw | genus = Emblingia | image = Emblingia calceoliflora.jpg | parent_authority = F.Muell. | species = calceoliflora | authority = F.Muell. }}
'''''Emblingia''''' is a monospecific plant genus containing the species '''''Emblingia calceoliflora''''', a herbaceous prostrate subshrub endemic to Western Australia. It has no close relatives, and is now generally placed alone in family '''Emblingiaceae'''.
==Description== It is a perennial, herbaceous prostrate subshrub, with simple petiolate leaves with "cartilaginous" (hard and tough, resembling cartilage) margins. The irregular, solitary flowers are white, cream, yellow, green or, pink, and occur from August to November. It has a non-fleshy fruit.<ref name="Watson 1992">{{cite web |author1=Watson, L. |author2=M. J. Dallwitz |year=1992|title=Emblingiaceae |work=The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval |url=http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/emblingi.htm |accessdate=2007-05-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311060135/http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/emblingi.htm |archivedate=2007-03-11 }}</ref><ref name="FloraBase 22822">{{FloraBase | name = Emblingiaceae | id = 22822}}</ref><ref name="FloraBase 21462">{{FloraBase | name = Emblingia | id = 21462}}</ref><ref name="FloraBase 2989">{{FloraBase | name = Emblingia calceoliflora | id=2989}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== The genus and species were first published in 1861 by Ferdinand von Mueller in ''Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'', based on specimens collected in the Murchison region by Pemberton Walcott and Augustus Frederick Oldfield.<ref name="APNI 57437">{{APNI | name = Emblingia | id = 57437}}</ref><ref name="APNI 57456">{{APNI | name = Emblingia calceoliflora | id = 57456}}</ref>
Placement of the genus within a family has previously been considered a difficult problem; it has at various times been placed in Capparaceae, Sapindaceae, Goodeniaceae and, in the Cronquist system, Polygalaceae.<ref name="Chandler 2000">{{cite journal |author1=Chandler, Gregory T. |author2=Randall J. Bayer | year = 2000 | title = Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic Western Australian genus Emblingia based on rbcL sequences | journal = Plant Species Biology | volume = 15 | pages = 57–72 | doi = 10.1046/j.1442-1984.2000.00024.x}}</ref> In 1965, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw erected Emblingiaceae for the genus, and that family is now used for the genus in the APG II, Dahlgren, Reveal, Stevens, Takhtajan and Thorne systems.<ref name="APHIS">{{cite web|url=http://www.life.umd.edu/emeritus/reveal/pbio/usda/usdae.html |accessdate=2007-05-12 |title=USDA - APHIS - Concordance of Family Names: E |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211134022/http://www.life.umd.edu/emeritus/reveal/pbio/usda/usdae.html |archivedate=2007-02-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Molecular analyses have confirmed the genus's placement in the Brassicales.<ref name="Chandler 2000"/><ref name="Hall 2004">{{cite journal | author = Hall, Jocelyn C. | author2 = Hugh H. Iltis | author3 = Kenneth J. Sytsma | name-list-style = amp | year = 2004 | title = Molecular phylogenetics of core Brassicales, placement of orphan genera Emblingia, Forchhammeria, Tirania, and character evolution | journal = Systematic Botany | volume = 29 | issue = 3 | pages = 654–669 | doi = 10.1600/0363644041744491| s2cid = 86218316 }}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== It is endemic to Western Australia, occurring in grey, yellow or red sand, on undulating sandplains of the west coast. It is most common in the Geraldton Sandplains and Carnarvon biogeographic regions, but also occurs on the north western edge of the Avon Wheatbelt.<ref name="FloraBase 2989"/>
==Ecology== It is not considered to be threatened.<ref name="FloraBase 2989"/>
==References == {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * Mueller, Ferdinand von (1861) ''Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' '''2'''(15). * Shaw, H. K. Airy (1965) ''Kew Bulletin'' '''18''':257. * {{cite journal | author = Erdtman, G. | author-link = Gunnar Erdtman | year = 1969 | title = On the relationships of Emblingia | journal = Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 67 | issue = 2 | pages = 169–186 | doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1969.tb01963.x | last2 = Leins | first2 = P. | last3 = Melville | first3 = R. | last4 = Metcalfe | first4 = C.R.}} * {{cite journal | author = Keighery, Greg | author-link = Greg Keighery | year = 1981 | title = The breeding system of Emblingia | journal = Plant Systematics and Evolution | volume = 137 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 63–65 | doi = 10.1007/BF00983205| s2cid = 45425138 | doi-access = free }} ==External links== *{{cite web |title=''Emblingia'' F.Muell. |publisher=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2919751}}
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Category:Rosids of Western Australia Category:Monotypic Brassicales genera Category:Brassicales Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller Category:Endemic flora of Western Australia