Roycea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Camphorosmoideae
Tribus: Camphorosmeae
Genus: Roycea

Species: R. divaricata – R. pycnophylloides – R. spinescens
Name

Roycea C.A.Gardner, J. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 32: 77. (1948)

Lectotype species (designated by Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2(1): 9. 1975): Roycea pycnophylloides C.A.Gardner

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Australasia
Australia
Western Australia

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Gardner, C.A. 1948. Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis XII. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 32: 75–83. BHL Reference page. : 77, plate 2

Additional references

Cabrera, J., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Kadereit, G. 2009. Phylogeny of the Australian Camphorosmeae (Chenopodiaceae) and the taxonomic significance of the fruiting perianth. In: International Journal of Plant Sciences 170(4): 505–521. DOI: 10.1086/597267 Reference page.

Links

APNI - Australian Plant Name Index. 2018. Roycea. Accessed: 2018 July 9.
Hassler, M. 2018. Roycea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 July 9. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Roycea. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 16 2016.
The Plant List 2013. Roycea in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Feb. 16.
Tropicos.org 2016. Roycea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 16 Feb. 2016.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Roycea.

Roycea is a genus of plants formerly in the family Chenopodiaceae, and now in the Amaranthaceae. The genus was first described in 1948 by Charles Austin Gardner,[1] and the genus name honours Robert Dunlop Royce (a helper at the Perth Herbarium).[2] The entire genus is endemic to Western Australia.[3] There are no synonyms.[1][4]
Species

(listed by both Plants of the World online,[4] and FloraBase.)[5]

Roycea divaricata Paul G.Wilson
Roycea pycnophylloides C.A.Gardner
Roycea spinescens C.A.Gardner

References

"Roycea". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
Gardner, C.A. (1948). "Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XII". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 32: 77, t. II.
"Roycea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Edit this at Wikidata
"Roycea C.A.Gardner | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
"Roycea (genus & species) FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora". florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au. Western Australian HerbariumBiodiversity and Conservation Science. Retrieved 22 March 2020.