Lambertia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Ordo: Proteales

Familia: Proteaceae
Subfamilia: Grevilleoideae
Tribus: Roupaleae
Subtribus: Lambertiinae
Genus: Lambertia
Species: L. echinata – L. ericifolia – L. fairallii – L. formosa – L. ilicifolia – L. inermis – L. multiflora – L. orbifolia – L. rariflora – L. uniflora
Name

Lambertia Sm. (1798)

Type species: L. formosa Sm.

Homonyms

Lambertia Korshikov, 1953, nom. illeg. (Characiaceae, Chlorophyta)

References

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) Lambertia Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian National Botanic Gardens & Australian National Herbarium. Accessed: 2013 Mar 05.
Smith, J.E. 1798: The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 214, 223.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Lambertia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Lambertia is a genus of flowering plants, belonging to the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to Australia. The genus was named in 1798 by Sir James Edward Smith in honour of English botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert.

The Lambertias are sclerophyllous shrubs or small trees. The common name, Wild Honeysuckle, is due to the flowers, which are asymmetrical with a long floral tube and tightly rolled lobes, in red, orange, yellow and green.
Species

There are ten species, nine of which are endemic to the South West, and one, L. formosa, found in the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands regions of New South Wales.[2] They are as follows:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Lambertia echinata R.Br.	Prickly honeysuckle	south-west of Western Australia
	Lambertia ericifolia R.Br.	Heath-leaved honeysuckle	south-west of Western Australia
	Lambertia fairallii Keighery	Fairall's honeysuckle	south-west of Western Australia.
	Lambertia formosa Sm.	Mountain devil, honey flower	northern New South Wales around Grafton and between Red Rock and Yamba and Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands of New South Wales
	Lambertia ilicifolia Hook.	Holly-leaved honeysuckle	south-west Western Australia
	Lambertia inermis R.Br.	Chittick	south-west of Western Australia.
	Lambertia multiflora Lindl.	Many-flowered honeysuckle	south-west of Western Australia.
	Lambertia orbifolia C.A.Gardner	Round-leaf honeysuckle	south-west of Western Australia.
	Lambertia rariflora Meisn.	Green honeysuckle	south-west of Western Australia.
	Lambertia uniflora R.Br.		south-west corner of Western Australia

References

"Lambertia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
Harden, G.J. "Genus Lambertia". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 31 January 2015.