Agiortia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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Agiortia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae.{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=Agiortia|title=Agiortia |accessdate=3 March 2012|work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}}

They are native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.{{cite web |title=Agiortia Quinn {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77070453-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=1 February 2022 |language=en}}

There are three species as follows:

• Agiortia cicatricata (J.M.Powell) Quinn syn. Leucopogon cicatricatus
• Agiortia pedicellata (C.T.White) Quinn syn. Leucopogon pedicellatus
• Agiortia pleiosperma (F.Muell.) Quinn syn. Leucopogon pleiospermus

The genus is closely related to Leucopogon.

The genus name of Agiortia is in honour of Despina (Fanias) Agioritis (1927–1994), an Australian botanist from Innisfail, Queensland.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

It was first described and published in Australian Systematic Botany in 2005.