Walwhalleya
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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Walwhalleya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae, subfamily Panicoideae and the tribe Paniceae.{{cite web |title=Walwhalleya Wills & J.J.Bruhl {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77075932-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=13 March 2021 |language=en}}Zuloaga F.O., Salariato D.L. & Scataglini A. (2018). Molecular phylogeny of Panicum s. str. (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) and insights into its biogeography and evolution PLoS ONE 13(2, e0191529): 1-39. All members use C3 photosynthesis {{cite journal |last1=Wills |first1=Karen E. |last2=Whalley |first2=R. D. B. |last3=Bruhl |first3=Jeremy J. |title=Systematic studies in Paniceae (Poaceae): Homopholis and Whalleya gen. et sp. nov. |journal=Australian Systematic Botany |date=2000 |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=437 |doi=10.1071/SB99007|bibcode=2000AuSyB..13..437W }}
It is native to the states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria in Australia.
Known species
- Walwhalleya jacobsiana R.D.B.Whalley & J.J.Bruhl
- Walwhalleya proluta (F.Muell.) Wills & J.J.Bruhl
- Walwhalleya pungens (Wills & J.J.Bruhl) Wills & J.J.Bruhl
- Walwhalleya subxerophila (Domin) Wills & J.J.Bruhl
Taxonomy
The genus name of Walwhalleya is in honour of Ralph Derwyn Broughton Whalley (b. 1933), an Australian botanist and specialist in grasses.{{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 |access-date=1 January 2021}} Whalley, Ralph Derwyn Broughton (Wal). Biographical notes.
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria[https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/whalley-ralph-derwyn-broughton.html]
It was first described and published in Austral. Syst. Bot. Vol.19 on page 327 in 2006.