Asterolasia section Asterolasia

Duretto, Marco F., Heslewood, Margaret M. & Bayly, Michael J., 2023, Generic and infrageneric limits of Phebalium and its allies (Rutaceae: Zanthoxyloideae), Australian Systematic Botany 36 (2), pp. 107-142 : 136

Asterolasia section Asterolasia

Type: Asterolasia trymalioides F.Muell.

Phebalium a. Correoides Endl., Gen. pl. 15: 1156 (1840); Phebalium sect. Correoides (Endl.) Pfeiff., Nomencl. bot. 2: 669 (1874). Type: not designated.

Actinostigma Turcz., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 32(1): 259 (1859). Type: Actinostigma lanceolatum Turcz. [= Asterolasia correifolia (A.Juss.) Benth. ].

Pleurandropsis Baill. , Adansonia 10: 305 (1873); Asterolasia sect. Pleurandropsis (Baill.) Kuntze in T. von Post & O.Kuntze, Lex. gen. phan. 50 (1903). Type: Pleurandropsis phebalioides (F.Muell.) Baill. [≡ Asterolasia phebalioides F.Muell. ].

Hairs stellate, rays unfused. Leaves flat to revolute. Petals white or yellow. Carpels 5.

A section of 13 species confined to south-eastern Australia, although absent from Tasmania .

Species

Asterolasia asteriscophora (2 subspp.), A. beckersii Orme & Duretto , A. buckinghamii (Blakely) Blakely , A. buxifolia Benth. , A. correifolia , A. elegans L.McDougall & Porteners , A. exasperata , A. hexapetala , A. phebalioides , A. rivularis Paul G.Wilson , A. rupestris B.J.Mole (2 subspp.), A. sola , A. trymalioides .