Muniria

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Prostantheroideae
Tribus: Chloantheae
Genus: Muniria
Species: M. angustisepala – M. lanceolata – M. megalophylla – M. quadrangulata
Name

Muniria N.Streiber & B.J.Conn, Austral. Syst. Bot. 24: 7 (2011)

Type species: Muniria quadrangulata (Munir) N.Streiber & B.J.Conn, Austral. Syst. Bot. 24: 7 (2011)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Pityrodia p. p. min. R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl.: 513 (1810)

References

Conn, B.J., Henwood, M.J. & Streiber, N. 2011. Synopsis of the tribe Chloantheae and new nomenclatural combinations in Pityrodia s.lat. (Lamiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 24(1): 1–9. Full text (PDF) Reference page.
Conn, B.J., Streiber, N., Brown, E.A., Henwood, M. & Olmstead, R.G. 2009. Infrageneric phylogeny of Chloantheae (Lamiaceae) based on chloroplast ndhF and nuclear ITS sequence data. Australian Systematic Botany 22: 243–256. DOI: 10.1071/SB09011 Full text PDF. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2016. Muniria in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 January 5. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Muniria. Published online. Accessed: January 5 2015.

Muniria is a genus of four species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory in Australia. Plants in this genus are woolly shrubs with five petals joined to form a tube-shaped flower with four stamens of unequal lengths. These species are similar to those in the genus Pityrodia except that the branches are distinctly 4-angled in cross section and the fruit has calluses or ridges.
Contents

1 Description
2 Taxonomy and naming
3 Distribution
4 References
5 External links

Description

Plants in the genus Muniria are evergreen shrubs, 1–2 m (3–7 ft) tall and densely covered with woolly hairs. The stems and branches are four-angled in cross section. The leaves are simple, elliptic to egg-shaped, arranged in opposite pairs, covered with woolly hairs and glands. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to twelve in leaf axils and single flowers or groups are surrounded by leaf-like bracteoles. Flowers have five sepals which are joined for about half their length to form a tube with five lobes. The five petals are pale yellow to red and form a slightly curved tube with five lobes on the end, the upper lobes slightly shorter than the lower ones. There are four stamens with the lower pair shorter than the upper ones. The fruit is dry, does not release its seeds when mature and has ridges or calluses.[2]
Taxonomy and naming

The genus was first described by Nikola Streiber and Barry Conn in 2011 and the description was published Australian Systematic Botany.[2][3] The type species is Muniria quadrangulata which was first formally described in 1979 by Ahmad Abid Munir as Pityrodia quadrangulata.[4][5] In 2011, Barry Conn, Murray Henwood and Nikola Streiber transferred P. quadrangulata and three others in that genus to the new genus Muniria.[2]

Four species of Muniria are accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at March 2020:

Muniria angustisepala (Munir) N.Streiber & B.J.Conn[6]
Muniria lanceolata (Munir) N.Streiber & B.J.Conn[7]
Muniria megalophylla (Munir) N.Streiber & B.J.Conn [8]
Muniria quadrangulata (Munir) N.Streiber & B.J.Conn [9]

Distribution

All species of Muniria are endemic to the Northern Territory.[10][11][12][13]
References

"Muniria". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
Conn, Barry J.; Henwood, Murray J.; Streiber, Nicola (2011). "Synopsis of the tribe Chloantheae and new nomenclatural combinations in Pityrodia s.lat. (Lamiaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 24 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1071/SB10039.
"Muniria". APNI. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
Munir, Ahmad Abid (1979). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Pityrodia (Chloanthaceae)". Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. 2 (1): 28–30.
"Pityrodia quadrangulata". APNI. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Muniria angustisepala". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
"Muniria lanceolata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
"Muniria megalophylla". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
"Muniria quadrangulata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
"Muniria angustifolia". Northern Territory flora online. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Muniria lanceolata". Northern Territory flora online. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Muniria megalophylla". Northern Territory flora online. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
"Muniria quadrangulata". Northern Territory flora online. Retrieved 30 November 2016.