- Calomeria
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regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Asterales
familia =Asteraceae
genus = "Calomeria"
genus_authority =Vent.
species = "C. amaranthoides"
binomial = "Calomeria amaranthoides"
binomial_authority =Vent. "Calomeria" is a plant
genus with a single species "Calomeria amaranthoides" (Incense Plant) which is native toNew South Wales and Victoria inAustralia .cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Calomeria~amaranthoides |title="Calomeria amranthoides" Vent. |accessdate=2008-04-14 |author=|work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia]Other species which were formerly included in this genus have been reassigned to other genera including "
Basedowia ", "Cassinia ", "Helichrysum ", "Humeocline " and "Thiseltonia ".cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=CALOMERIA|title= "Calomeria"|accessdate=2008-04-14|work=Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra]Description
"Calomeria amaranthoides" is a tall, fragrant biennial herb, growing to 3.5 metres in height. It has sticky stems and leaves which are green above and whitish beneath and are up to 15 cm long and 5 cm wide. Its flowers appear in large brown to red plumes in the summer (January to April in its native range).cite book|author=Costermans, L.| title=Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia |publisher=Rigby|location=Australia | year=
1981 | id=ISBN 072701403x]Taxonomy
The genus was first formally described by
E.P. Ventenat in "Jardin de la Malmaison " in 1804.References
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