Английская Википедия:Boronia anceps
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Boronia anceps is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with small leaves and pink, four-petalled flowers.
Description
Boronia anceps is a perennial herb that grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert, has flattened stems and lacks a lignotuber. Its leaves are narrow egg-shaped to narrow oblong about Шаблон:Convert long although those near the top are very reduced. The flowers are pink or pinkish purple and are borne in a cyme on the tip of the stems. The groups of flowers are on a thin peduncle up to Шаблон:Convert long, each flower on a thin pedicel Шаблон:Convert long. The four sepals are dark red, narrow triangular to broadly egg-shaped and Шаблон:Convert long. The four petals are broadly egg-shaped and about Шаблон:Convert long with their bases overlapping. The style and stigma are continuous. Flowering occurs from September to December or January.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
Boronia anceps was first formally described in 1998 by Paul G. Wilson and the description was published in Nuytsia from a specimen collected near a crossing on the Scott River near Augusta.[3][1] The specific epithet (anceps) is a Latin word meaning "two-sided",[4] referring to the shape of the stem.[1]
Distribution and habitat
This boronia grows in seasonally swampy heath and is only known from between the Scott River and Walpole.[1][2]
Conservation
Boronia anceps is classified as "Priority Two" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife[2] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[5]
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