Английская Википедия:Boronia corynophylla
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Boronia corynophylla 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 spreading shrub with thin, simple, cylindrical to narrow club-shaped leaves and pale red, four-petalled flowers in groups of up to three on the ends of the branches.
Description
Boronia corynophylla is a spreading, densely branched shrub that grows to a height of about Шаблон:Convert with its branches covered with soft hairs. It has simple, thin cylindrical to narrow spindle-shaped or club-shaped leaves Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide. The flowers are pale red and are borne singly or in groups of up to three on the end of the stems, each on a pedicel Шаблон:Convert long with two tiny bracteoles at the base. The four sepals are egg-shaped, dark reddish brown, Шаблон:Convert long and hairy with many pimply glands. The four petals are egg-shaped and leathery, about Шаблон:Convert long with their bases overlapping. The eight stamens are club-shaped with those nearest the sepals slightly longer than those near the petals.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
Boronia corynophylla was first formally described in 1998 by Paul G. Wilson and the description was published in Nuytsia from a specimen collected in the Frank Hann National Park.[3][1] The specific epithet (corynophylla) is derived from the Ancient Greek words koryne meaning "club" or "mace"[4]Шаблон:Rp and phyllon meaning "leaf",[4]Шаблон:Rp referring to the club-shaped leaves.[1]
Distribution and habitat
This boronia grows is only known from the Frank Hann National Park where it grows in Eucalyptus salmonophloia woodland.[1][2]
Conservation
Boronia corynophylla 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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