page_title: Adenanthos cuneatus
section_title: Infrageneric placement
hierarchical_section_title: Adenanthos cuneatus / Taxonomy / Infrageneric placement
caption_attribution_description: Flower of Adenanthos cuneata (cultivated, not labelled) Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia
context_page_description: Adenanthos cuneatus, also known as coastal jugflower, flame bush, bridle bush and sweat bush, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae, native to the south coast of Western Australia. The French naturalist Jacques Labillardière originally described it in 1805. Within the genus Adenanthos, it lies in the section Adenanthos and is most closely related to A. stictus. A. cuneatus has hybridized with four other species of Adenanthos. Growing to 2 m high and wide, it is erect to prostrate in habit, with wedge-shaped lobed leaves covered in fine silvery hair. The single red flowers are insignificant, and appear all year, though especially in late spring. The reddish new growth occurs over the summer.
  It is sensitive to Phytophthora cinnamomi dieback, hence requiring a sandy soil and good drainage to grow in cultivation, its natural habitat of sandy soils in heathland being an example. Its pollinators include bees, honey possum, silvereye and honeyeaters, particularly the western spinebill. A. cuneatus is grown in gardens in Australia and the western United States, and a dwarf and prostrate form are commercially available.
context_section_description: In 1870, George Bentham published the first infrageneric arrangement of Adenanthos in Volume 5 of his landmark "Flora Australiensis". He divided the genus into two sections, placing A. cuneata in A. sect. Stenolaema because its perianth tube is straight and not swollen above the middle. This arrangement still stands today, though A. sect. Stenolaema is now renamed to the autonym A. sect. Adenanthos.
  A phenetic analysis of the genus undertaken by Nelson in 1975 yielded results in which  A. cuneatus was grouped with A. stictus. This pairing was then neighbour to a larger group that included A. forrestii, A. eyrei, A. cacomorphus, A. ileticos, and several hybrid and unusual forms of A. cuneatus.  Nelson's analysis supported Bentham's sections, and so they were retained when Nelson published a taxonomic revision of the genus in 1978. He further subdivided A. sect. Adenanthos into two subsections, with A. cuneata placed into A. subsect. Adenanthos for reasons including the length of its perianth, but Nelson discarded his own subsections in his 1995 treatment of Adenanthos, for the Flora of Australia series of monographs. By this time, the ICBN had issued a ruling that all genera ending in -anthos must be treated as having masculine gender; thus the specific epithet became cuneatus.
  The placement of A. cuneatus in Nelson's arrangement of Adenanthos may be summarised as follows:
  Adenanthos
  A. sect. Eurylaema (4 species)
  A. sect. Adenanthos
  A. drummondii
  A. dobagii
  A. apiculatus
  A. linearis
  A. pungens (2 subspecies)
  A. gracilipes
  A. venosus
  A. dobsonii
  A. glabrescens (2 subspecies)
  A. ellipticus
  A. cuneatus
  A. stictus
  A. ileticos
  A. forrestii
  A. eyrei
  A. cacomorphus
  A. flavidiflorus
  A. argyreus
  A. macropodianus
  A. terminalis
  A. sericeus (2 subspecies)
  A. × cunninghamii
  A. oreophilus
  A. cygnorum (2 subspecies)
  A. meisneri
  A. velutinus
  A. filifolius
  A. labillardierei
  A. acanthophyllus
caption: Inflorescence
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