Английская Википедия:Boronia ovata
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Boronia ovata is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with simple, egg-shaped leaves and pink to mauve four-petalled flowers. It is found in the Darling Range near Perth.
Description
Boronia ovata is an open shrub that grows to a height of about Шаблон:Convert and has broadly egg-shaped leaves that about Шаблон:Convert long. The flowers are arranged in small groups on the ends of the branches, each flower on the end of a thin pedicel Шаблон:Convert long. The four sepals are red, broadly egg-shaped with a pointed tip and about Шаблон:Convert long. The four petals are pink to mauve, elliptic and about Шаблон:Convert long. The eight stamens are glabrous with an anther about Шаблон:Convert long with a small white tip. The stigma is minute. Flowering occurs from September to November.[1][2]
Taxonomy and naming
Boronia ovata was first formally described in 1841 by John Lindley and the description was published in Edwards's Botanical Register.[3][4] The specific epithet (ovata) is a Latin word meaning "egg-shaped".[5]
Distribution and habitat
This boronia grows in eucalypt woodland in the Darling Range between New Norica and Boddington in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions.[1][2]
Conservation
Boronia ovata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[2]
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