# Guichenotia > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Guichenotia > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Guichenotia.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guichenotia > Source revision: 1339522677 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Guichenotia ledifolia.jpg |image_caption = ''[Guichenotia ledifolia](/source/Guichenotia_ledifolia)'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Guichenotia |authority = [J.Gay](/source/J.Gay){{cite web|title=''Guichenotia''|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/56189|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=22 March 2022}} |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = * ''Ditomostrophe'' [Turcz.](/source/Turcz.) * ''Sarotes'' [Lindl.](/source/Lindl.) }} '''''Guichenotia''''' is a genus of 17 species of flowering plants in the family [Malvaceae](/source/Malvaceae) that is [endemic](/source/endemic) to the south west of [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia). Plants in the genus ''Guichenotia'' are shrubs with [simple](/source/Leaf), linear to oblong leaves with leaf-like [stipule](/source/stipule)s at the base of the [petiole](/source/Petiole_(botany)), the flowers [bisexual](/source/Plant_reproductive_morphology) with three [bracteoles](/source/Bract) at the base of the [sepal](/source/sepal)s, and five petal-like sepals, the petals sometimes absent. The fruit is a [capsule](/source/Capsule_(botany)) usually containing 15 seeds.{{FloraBase | name = ''Guichenotia'' | id = 21776}}{{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}} The genus was first formally described in 1821 by [Jaques Étienne Gay](/source/Jaques_%C3%89tienne_Gay) in ''[Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle](/source/M%C3%A9moires_du_Mus%C3%A9um_d'Histoire_Naturelle)''. The first species Gay described was ''[Guichenotia ledifolia](/source/Guichenotia_ledifolia)''.{{cite web|title=''Guichenotia''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/458658 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index|access-date=22 March 2022}}{{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}} The genus name honours [Antoine Guichenot](/source/Antoine_Guichenot), gardener's boy on the 1801–1803 French scientific voyage to Australia under [Nicolas Baudin](/source/Nicolas_Baudin).{{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}}{{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}} ==Species list== The following species of ''Guichenotia'' are accepted by the [Australian Plant Census](/source/Australian_Plant_Census) as at 22 March 2022:{{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}} *''[Guichenotia alba](/source/Guichenotia_alba)'' Keighery *''[Guichenotia angustifolia](/source/Guichenotia_angustifolia)'' ([Turcz.](/source/Turcz.)) [Druce](/source/George_Claridge_Druce) *''[Guichenotia anota](/source/Guichenotia_anota)'' [C.F.Wilkins](/source/C.F.Wilkins) *''[Guichenotia apetala](/source/Guichenotia_apetala)'' [A.S.George](/source/A.S.George) *''[Guichenotia asteriskos](/source/Guichenotia_asteriskos)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia astropletha](/source/Guichenotia_astropletha)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia basiviridis](/source/Guichenotia_basiviridis)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia glandulosa](/source/Guichenotia_glandulosa)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia impudica](/source/Guichenotia_impudica)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia intermedia](/source/Guichenotia_intermedia)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia ledifolia](/source/Guichenotia_ledifolia)'' J.Gay *''[Guichenotia macrantha](/source/Guichenotia_macrantha)'' Turcz. - large-flowered guichenotia *''[Guichenotia micrantha](/source/Guichenotia_micrantha)'' ([Steetz](/source/Steetz)) [Benth.](/source/Benth.) - small flowered guichenotia *''[Guichenotia quasicalva](/source/Guichenotia_quasicalva)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia sarotes](/source/Guichenotia_sarotes)'' Benth. *''[Guichenotia seorsiflora](/source/Guichenotia_seorsiflora)'' C.F.Wilkins *''[Guichenotia tuberculata](/source/Guichenotia_tuberculata)'' C.F.Wilkins ==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 }} {{Taxonbar|from=Q5230558}} 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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Guichenotia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guichenotia) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guichenotia?action=history)). 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