Lechenaultia is a genus of plants in the Goodeniaceae

Goodeniaceae

Goodeniaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola, which is pantropical...

 family. Some species of this genus are used like ornamental plant

Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...

s. Lechenaultia species are diverse in form, they may appear as trees, shrubs, or small herbaceous plants.

They are named for the botanist attached to the Baudin

Baudin

-People:* Auguste Baudin, French admiral and colonial governor* Charles Baudin, French admiral* François-André Baudin, French admiral* Nicolas Baudin, French explorer* Robert Baudin, American counterfeiter...

's expedition to Australia

Australia

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, Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour

Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour

Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Theodore Leschenault de la Tour was a French botanist and ornithologist.Leschenault de la Tour was chief botanist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia between 1800 and 1803...

. The genus name was changed to Leschenaultia, but reverted to Robert Brown

Robert Brown (botanist)

Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...

's spelling in the 1950s. The common names of the species maintains the correction, as with the section name.

The following is a list of the taxa contained by the genus Lechenaultia;
Sections

Lechenaultia R.Br. sect. Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia sect. Patenti D.A.Morrison

Lechenaultia brevifolia D.A.Morrison

Species

Lechenaultia acutiloba Benth. - Wingless Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia aphylla D.A.Morrison

Lechenaultia biloba

Lechenaultia biloba

Lechenaultia biloba is a plant in the Goodeniaceae family....

Lindl. - Blue Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia brevifolia D.A.Morrison

Lechenaultia chlorantha F.Muell. - Kalbarri Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia divaricata F.Muell.

Lechenaultia expansa R.Br.

Lechenaultia filiformis R.Br.

Lechenaultia floribunda Benth. - Free-flowering Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia formosa R.Br. - Red Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia galactites L.W.Sage

Lechenaultia heteromera Benth. - Claw Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia hirsuta F.Muell. - Hairy Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia hortii L.W.Sage

Lechenaultia juncea E.Pritz. - Reed-like Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia laricina Lindl. - Scarlet Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia linarioides

Lechenaultia linarioides

Lechenaultia linarioides, commonly named Yellow Leschenaultia, is a shrub found in Southwest Australia.-Description:A sprawling to prostrate shrub up to 1.5 metres high. Branches can reach a length of 1 metre. Branchlets arch upwardly and are covered in scattered leaves, this gives a sometimes...

DC.

A. P. de Candolle

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...

- Yellow Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia longiloba F.Muell. - Irwin Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia lutescens D.A.Morrison & Carolin

Lechenaultia macrantha

Lechenaultia macrantha

Lechenaultia macrantha is a species of low growing plant found on sandy or gravelly soils in Western Australia.The species, when viewed from above, has a wreath-like form during its flowering period around August to November. The prostrate habit of Lechenaultia macrantha is between fifty and one...

K.Krause - Wreath Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia magnifica L.W.Sage

Lechenaultia ovata D.A.Morrison

Lechenaultia papillata D.A.Morrison

Lechenaultia pulvinaris C.A.Gardner - Cushion Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia stenosepala E.Pritz. - Narrow-sepaled Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia striata F.Muell.

Lechenaultia subcymosa C.A.Gardner & A.S.George - Wide-branching Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia superba F.Muell. - Barrens Leschenaultia

Lechenaultia tubiflora R.Br. - Heath Leschenaultia

In addition to these species, there are two descriptions of specimens held at the Western Australian Herbarium

Western Australian Herbarium

The Western Australian Herbarium is the State Herbarium in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. It is part of the State government's Department of Environment and Conservation, and has responsibility for the description and documentation of the flora of Western Australia.The Herbarium is...

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• Lechenaultia sp. Gibson Desert
• Lechenaultia sp. Kokardine