Lomatia

Lomatia
L. silaifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Lomatia R.Br.
Species
See text.

Lomatia is a genus of 12 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae. Within the family, they have been placed, alone, in their own subtribe, Lomatiinae according to Johnson & Briggs 1975 classification of the family and subsequently in Flora of Australia (1995).

The genus has a Pacific Rim distribution, with members native to eastern Australia and southern South America, forming a part of the Antarctic flora. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to small trees up to 12 m tall.

Selected species

• Lomatia arborescens - eastern Australia
• Lomatia dentata - Chile, Argentina
• Lomatia ferruginea - Chile, Argentina
• Lomatia fraseri - eastern Australia
• Lomatia fraxinifolia - Queensland
• Lomatia hirsuta - Chile, Peru, Argentina
• Lomatia ilicifolia - eastern Australia
• Lomatia myricoides - southeastern Australia
• Lomatia polymorpha - Tasmania
• Lomatia silaifolia - eastern Australia
• Lomatia tasmanica (King's Lomatia) - Tasmania
• Lomatia tinctoria - Tasmania

References

• Wilson, AJG, Hewson, HJ, Mowatt, J (1995). "Lomatia". In McCarthy, Patrick (ed.). Flora of Australia: Volume 16: Eleagnaceae, Proteaceae 1. CSIRO Publishing / Australian Biological Resources Study. pp. 374–382. ISBN 0-643-05693-9. 

• Hoot, SB & Douglas, AW (1998). "Phylogeny of the Proteaceae based on atpB and atpB-rbcL spacer region sequences". Australian Systematic Botany 11 (4): 301–320. doi:10.1071/SB98027. 

• Johnson, LAS & Briggs, BG (1975). "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family". Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 70 (2): 83–182. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1975.tb01644.x. 

External links

• Pictures of Lomatia dentata, Lomatia ferruginea and Lomatia hirsuta from Chilebosque.
• pantherfile.uwm.edu/hoot/www/Prot.html - Hoot/Proteaceae