Английская Википедия:Boronia coriacea
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Boronia coriacea 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 small shrub with pinnate leaves and hairless pink, four-petalled flowers in small clusters on the ends of the branches.
Description
Boronia coriacea is a small ericoid shrub that grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert with more or less glabrous stems, leaves and flowers. Its leaves are pinnate with three or five leathery leaflets and about Шаблон:Convert long on a petiole Шаблон:Convert long. The leaflets are wedge-shaped with narrower end towards the base, about Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The flowers are pink and are borne in clusters on the end of the stems, each on a pedicel about Шаблон:Convert long. The four sepals are egg-shaped to almost round, about Шаблон:Convert long with their bases overlapping. The four petals are egg-shaped, about Шаблон:Convert long with their bases overlapping. The eight stamens are club-shaped and erect, those nearest the sepals slightly longer than the stigma. Flowering occurs in April or from October to November.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
Boronia coriacea was first formally described in 1971 by Paul G. Wilson and the description was published in Nuytsia from a specimen collected on the road to Israelite Bay.[3][1] The specific epithet (coriacea) is a Latin word meaning "leathery".[4]
Distribution and habitat
This boronia grows is only known from the type locality where it grows in heath and in mallee vegetation.[1][2]
Conservation
Boronia coriacea 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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