Английская Википедия:Androcalva perlaria
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Androcalva perlaria, commonly known as pearl-like androcalva,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of southern Western Australia. It is a rounded shrub with egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and heads of three to nine white and pinkish flowers.
Description
Androcalva perlaria is a rounded shrub that typically grows to Шаблон:Cvt high and Шаблон:Cvt wide, and has hairy new growth. Its leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long with lobed, narrowly triangular stipules Шаблон:Cvt long. The edges of the leaves are rolled under and irregularly lobed, both surfaces densely covered with fine, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in heads of three to nine on a peduncle up to Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long, with bracts Шаблон:Cvt long at the base. The flowers are Шаблон:Cvt wide with 5 white, hairy, petal-like sepals with a pink base, and 5 white petals, the ligule slightly longer than the sepal lobes. There are up to three staminodes between each pair of stamens. Flowering occurs from September to December.[2]
Taxonomy
Androcalva perlaria was first formally described in 2011 by Carolyn Wilkins in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Wellstead in 2006.[3] The specific epithet (perlaria) means "pearly", referring to the luminescent appearance of the foliage.[2][4]
Distribution and habitat
This species grows in dense sedgeland in a seasonally wet habitat near Wellstead, and is only known from bout 270 individual plants in fragmented populations in the Esperance Plains bioregion in the south of Western Australia.[1][2][5]
Conservation status
Androcalva perlaria is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999[1] and as "Threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[5] meaning that it is in danger of extinction.[6]
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