Gilesia

{{short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{speciesbox |image = |image_caption = |genus = Gilesia |parent_authority = F.Muell. (1875) |species = biniflora |authority = F.Muell. (1875) |synonyms = {{species list |Hymenocapsa |J.M.Black (1925) |Corchorus longipes |Tate (1898) |Hermannia gilesii |F.Muell. (1875), pro syn. |Hymenocapsa longipes |J.M.Black (1925) |Mahernia gilesii |F.Muell. (1875), nom. provis. }} |synonyms_ref = <ref name ="POWO"/><ref name = powo2>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:823372-1 ''Gilesia biniflora'' F.Muell.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 27 June 2023.</ref> }} '''''Gilesia biniflora''''' is species of flowering plant belonging to the family Malvaceae.<ref name = powo2/> It is commonly known as the 'western tar-vine'.<ref name = Hermannia>{{cite web |title=The Hermannia Pages: Western Tar Vine |url=http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Hermannia/Gilesia.html |website=www.malvaceae.info |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref> It is the sole species in genus '''''Gilesia'''''.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Gilesia'' F.Muell. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38705-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is in the Byttnerioideae subfamily.<ref name = Hermannia/>

Its native range is the deserts and dry shrublands of central Australia, including portions of New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.<ref name=powo2/>

It is named in honour of Christopher Giles (c. 1840 – 1917), an English surveyor, and Ernest Giles (1835–1897) an Australian explorer.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The specific Latin epithet of ''biniflora'' is derived from the Latin bīnus (“double, twofold”) and also 'flora' meaning plant. It was first described and published in ''Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' (Fragm.) Vol.9 on page 42 in 1875.<ref name="POWO" />

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Category:Malvaceae Category:Monotypic Malvaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Australia Category:Malvales of Australia Category:Plants described in 1875 Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller