{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Starr 070906-8806 Leptinella gruveri.jpg |image_caption = ''Leptinella gruveri'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Leptinella |authority = Cass. |type_species = |synonyms_ref = <ref name=z/> |synonyms = * ''Cotula'' sect. ''Leptinella'' <small>(Cass.) Hook.f.</small> * ''Symphyomera'' <small>Hook.f.</small> }}
'''''Leptinella''''' is a genus<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5400080#page/137/mode/1up Cassini, Alexandre Henri Gabriel de. 1822. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societe Philomatique 1822: 127-129] generic description in Latin, specific descriptions and commentary in French</ref><ref name="Lloyd+Webb">{{cite journal|title=The reinstatement of ''Leptinella'' at generic rank, and the status of the 'Cotuleae' (Asteraceae, Anthemideae) |last1=Lloyd|first1=David G.|last2=Webb|first2= C. J.|date=1987|journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany|volume=25|issue=1|pages=99–105|doi=10.1080/0028825X.1987.10409959|bibcode=1987NZJB...25...99L }}</ref> of alpine flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, comprising 33 species, distributed in New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America. Many of the species are endemic to New Zealand.<ref name="Lloyd+Webb" /><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40004760 Tropicos, ''Leptinella'' Cass.]</ref>
For over 100 years, ''Leptinella'' species were considered part of the genus ''Cotula'', but the genus ''Leptinella'' was reinstated by Lloyd & Webb in 1987.<ref name="Lloyd+Webb" /> They determined that all species of ''Leptinella'' are distinguished from those of the other two sections of ''Cotula'', and other Anthemideae, by the conspicuous "inflated" corollas of the female florets and by chromosome numbers based on x = 26 where known.<ref name="Lloyd+Webb" />
''Leptinella squalida'' 'Platt's Black' is a form cultivated as a garden plant, and is used for ground cover and as a component in tapestry lawns.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Leptinella squalida'' 'Platt's Black' |website=Plant Finder |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |url=http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b785 |access-date=2016-07-24 }}</ref>
; Species<ref name=z>[https://archive.today/20141215134317/http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=26f3045c-81a5-4915-a80d-a7ef26aa0b73 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ]</ref><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Leptinella The Plant List search for ''Leptinella'']</ref> {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''L. albida'' – New Zealand * ''L. atrata'' – Black Daisy – New Zealand * ''L. calcarea'' – New Zealand * ''L. dendyi'' – New Zealand * ''L. dioica'' – New Zealand * ''L. dispersa'' – New Zealand * ''L. drummondii'' – Western Australia * ''L. featherstonii'' – New Zealand incl Chatham Islands * ''L. filiformis'' – New Zealand * ''L. goyenii'' – New Zealand * ''L. intermedia'' – New Zealand * ''L. intricata'' – South Africa * ''L. lanata'' – New Zealand * ''L. maniototo'' – New Zealand * ''L. membranacea'' * ''L. minor'' – Alpine Brass Buttons – New Zealand * ''L. nana'' – New Zealand * ''L. pectinata'' – New Zealand * ''L. peduncularis'' * ''L. plumosa'' – New Zealand, various subantarctic islands * ''L. potentillina'' – Chatham Brass Buttons – Chatham Islands * ''L. pusilla'' – Purple Brass Buttons – New Zealand * ''L. pyrethrifolia'' – New Zealand * ''L. reptans'' – South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania * ''L.rotunda'' – New Zealand * ''L. rotundata'' – New Zealand * ''L. sarawaketensis'' – New Guinea * ''L. scariosa'' – southern Chile, southern Argentina * ''L. serrulata'' – New Zealand * ''L. squalida'' – New Zealand * ''L. traillii'' – New Zealand * ''L. wilhelminensis'' – New Guinea }}
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Category:Asteraceae genera Category:Alpine flora Category:Anthemideae
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