| Agiortia | |
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| Agiortia pedicellata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epacridoideae |
| Tribe: | Styphelieae |
| Genus: | Agiortia Quinn |
Agiortia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae.
They are native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.
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. It was first described and published in Australian Systematic Botany in 2005.
References
- ^ "Agiortia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ "Agiortia Quinn | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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