Hardenbergia

Hardenbergia
Hardenbergia comptoniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Kennediinae
Genus: Hardenbergia
Benth.[1]
Species

See text.

Hardenbergia is a small genus of leguminous vines from Australia. The genus was named in honour of Franziska, Countess von Hardenberg (sister of Baron von Huegel)[2] by English botanist George Bentham, in 1837.

There are three species as follows:

References

  1. "Hardenbergia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 2013-05-11.
  2. Roger Spencer, Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia, vol.3 p.206, UNSW press (2002).
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