Asterolasia F.Muell.

Duretto, Marco F., Heslewood, Margaret M. & Bayly, Michael J., 2023, Generic and infrageneric limits of Phebalium and its allies (Rutaceae: Zanthoxyloideae), Australian Systematic Botany 36 (2), pp. 107-142 : 136

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1071/SB22018
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10904218
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scientific name	Asterolasia F.Muell.
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Asterolasia F.Muell. View in CoL , Trans. Philos. Soc. Victoria 1: 9 (1854)

Type: Asterolasia trymalioides F.Muell.

A genus of 19 species with five species restricted to south-western Australia and 14 to south-eastern mainland Australia, nine of which are endemic to New South Wales (see Wilson 2013 e; Orme and Duretto 2017; Wege 2017; Alvarez and Duretto 2019 a).

There are three sections.

Key to sections

1. Carpels 5 (SE Aust.)..............................................section Asterolasia Carpels 1–4 (SW Aust., SA)..............................................................2

2. Petals white or pink, or yellow; if petals yellow then stellate hairs on abaxial surface of petals with fused rays and so resembling fimbriate scales and leaves flat (SW Aust.)..................section Urocarpus Petals yellow, stellate hairs with unfused rays on abaxial surface; leaves revolute ( SA)............................................section Muricatae