Fabaceae tribe Mirbelieae

Nemcia

 

Nemcia Domin (1923), Preslia 2, 27.


40 spp.
In honour of Bohumil Nemec (1873-1966) of Bohemia, professor of botany and cytologist.
South-west western Australia.
Eucalypt forest, woodland, mallee and heath on oligotrophic soils.
Some species have large, red bird-pollinated flowers, which may or may not have evolved independently of those in Brachysema and Jansonia. See Crisp (1994) in P.Eggleton and R.Vane-Wright, Phylogenetics and Ecology, 281-309.
Crisp & P.H.Weston (1987), Advances Legume Syst. 3, 83-117; key in Crisp & F.Mollemans (1993), Nuytsia 9, 223-232; Crisp & P.H.Weston (1995), Advances Legume Syst. 7, 265-269.
This shrubby genus falls within the Callistachys group where it is diagnosed by obviously trifid bracts, condensed inflorescence, erect calyx lobes and little or no fluoroacetate.

Now included within Gastrolobium (Chandler et al., Aust. Syst. Bot. 15: 619-739, 2002).
© M. Crisp


Gastrolobium
(Nemcia) rubrum, Stirling Range, WA

Gastrolobium (Nemcia) elegans, Stirling Range, WA

Gastrolobium (Nemcia) pyramidalis, Stirling Range, WA

Gastrolobium (Nemcia) mondurup, Stirling Range, WA

Gastrolobium (Nemcia) vestitum,

Mt Hassell, Stirling Range, WA


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