{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Guichenotia ledifolia.jpg |image_caption = ''Guichenotia ledifolia'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Guichenotia |authority = J.Gay<ref name=APC>{{cite web|title=''Guichenotia''|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/56189|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name="APC" /> |synonyms = * ''Ditomostrophe'' <small>Turcz.</small> * ''Sarotes'' <small>Lindl.</small> }}
'''''Guichenotia''''' is a genus of 17 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae that is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. Plants in the genus ''Guichenotia'' are shrubs with simple, linear to oblong leaves with leaf-like stipules at the base of the petiole, the flowers bisexual with three bracteoles at the base of the sepals, and five petal-like sepals, the petals sometimes absent. The fruit is a capsule usually containing 15 seeds.<ref name=FloraBase>{{FloraBase | name = ''Guichenotia'' | id = 21776}}</ref><ref name="Blake">{{cite book |last1=Blake |first1=Trevor L. |title=Lantern bushes of Australia; Thomasias & allied genera : a field and horticultural guide |date=2021 |publisher=Australian Plants Society, Keilor Plains Group |location=Victoria |isbn=9780646839301 |pages=206–209}}</ref>
The genus was first formally described in 1821 by Jaques Étienne Gay in ''Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle''. The first species Gay described was ''Guichenotia ledifolia''.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Guichenotia''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/458658 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index|access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="J.Gay">{{cite journal |last1=Gay |first1=Jaques E. |title=Monographie des Cinq Genres de Plantes, Lasiopetalees |journal=Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle |date=1821 |volume=7 |page=448 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108221#page/490/mode/1up |access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> The genus name honours Antoine Guichenot, gardener's boy on the 1801–1803 French scientific voyage to Australia under Nicolas Baudin.<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=84 |edition=3rd}}</ref><ref name="Nelson 1976">{{cite journal | author = Nelson, E. Charles | year = 1976 | title = Antoine Guichenot and ''Adenanthos'' (Proteaceae) specimens collected during Baudin's Australian Expedition, 1801-1803 | journal = Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–10 | doi = 10.3366/jsbnh.1976.8.PART_1.1 | issn = 0260-9541}}</ref>
==Species list== The following species of ''Guichenotia'' are accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at 22 March 2022:<ref name="APClist">{{cite web |title=''Guichenotia'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/taxonomy?product=APC&tree.id=51209179&name=Guichenotia&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&max=100&display=apc&search=true |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> *''Guichenotia alba'' <small>Keighery</small> *''Guichenotia angustifolia'' <small>(Turcz.) Druce</small> *''Guichenotia anota'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia apetala'' <small>A.S.George</small> *''Guichenotia asteriskos'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia astropletha'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia basiviridis'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia glandulosa'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia impudica'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia intermedia'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia ledifolia'' <small>J.Gay</small> *''Guichenotia macrantha'' <small>Turcz.</small> - large-flowered guichenotia *''Guichenotia micrantha'' <small>(Steetz) Benth.</small> - small flowered guichenotia *''Guichenotia quasicalva'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia sarotes'' <small>Benth.</small> *''Guichenotia seorsiflora'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small> *''Guichenotia tuberculata'' <small>C.F.Wilkins</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
*[http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/21776 FloraBase - the Western Australian flora: ''Guichenotia''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905102517/http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/21776 |date=5 September 2008 }}
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Category:Guichenotia Category:Malvaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Southwest Australia Category:Rosids of Western Australia Category:Malvales of Australia Category:Taxa named by Jaques Étienne Gay