Pollia crispata
Pollia
Pollia
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Common name: Pollia
Conservation status: Least concern
Etymology:
The genus is possibly from the Greek 'polis' - one of which there is a lot
The specific epithet crispata is derived from Latin, meaning "wavy"
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Habit:
A perennial herb
Habitat:
Rainforest or rainforest margins
Distribution:
Eastern Australia
Found from near Nowra in NSW to tropical Queensland
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Taxonomy
It is one of the many plants first described by Robert Brown with the type known as "(J.) v.v."
Published in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen in 1810
The plant was later moved by the systematic botanist George Bentham into the genus Pollia
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