Archeria hirtella

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image_caption = Plate LXXXI (Fitch)

|genus = Archeria (plant)

|species = hirtella

|authority = (Hook. f.) Hook. f

|synonyms = Epacris hirtella Hook.f.

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Archeria hirtella is a species of shrub in the family Ericaceae. It is native to Tasmania, Australia.{{cite journal|last1=Crayn|first1=D. M.|last2=Quinn|first2=C. J.|title= Archerieae: a new tribe in Epacridaceae|journal=Australian Systematic Botany|volume=11|issue=1|year=1998|pages=23|issn=1030-1887|doi=10.1071/SB97002}}

Taxonomy

Joseph Hooker first described it in 1847 as Epacris hirtella from a specimen collected in Macquarie Harbour by Gunn,Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847) [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2926245 Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 271] but in 1860 he assigned it to the genus, Archeria.

References

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Hooker, J.D. (1860) [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28465365 The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(4): 263], [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28465541 t. 81]

{{APNI|id=98590|name=Archeria hirtella}}

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