| Sprengelia | |
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| Sprengelia incarnata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epacridoideae |
| Tribe: | Cosmelieae |
| Genus: | Sprengelia Sm.[1] |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Sprengelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus Sprengelia are slender, erect or low-lying shrubs with overlapping, stem-clasping leaves, many bracts at the base of the flowers, the sepals egg-shaped, white or coloured, the five petals with spreading lobes, and the fruit a capsule.[2][3][4]
The genus Sprengelia was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar,[5][6] later published in translation in Tracts relating to natural history.[7] The first species described was Sprengelia incarnata.[5][6] The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel.[8]
The names of seven species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:[9]
- Sprengelia distichophylla (Rodway) W.M.Curtis (Tas.)
- Sprengelia incarnata Sm. - pink swamp-heath (S.A., N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)
- Sprengelia minima Crowden (Tas.)
- Sprengelia montana R.Br. (Tas.)
- Sprengelia monticola (DC.) Druce - rock sprengelia (N.S.W)
- Sprengelia propinqua A.Cunn. ex DC. (Tas.)
- Sprengelia sprengelioides (R.Br.) Druce (Qld., N.S.W.)
- ^ a b "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ Albrecht, David A. "Sprengelia". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ Powell, Jocelyn M. "Sprengelia". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ "Sprengelia". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ a b Smith, James Edward (1794). "Sprengelia et nytt Orteflugte". Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar. 15: 261–264. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ Smith, James Edward (1798). Tracts relating to natural history. London. pp. 269–274. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC world dictionary of plant names : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 2543. ISBN 0849326737.
- ^ "Sprengelia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 22 June 2020.