Английская Википедия:Cryptandra alpina

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Cryptandra alpina, commonly known as alpine pearlflower,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a small, prostrate shrub with slender branches, linear leaves, and tube-shaped white flowers arranged singly on the ends of branches.

Description

Cryptandra alpina is a prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of up to Шаблон:Cvt and has many slender, wiry branches usually less than Шаблон:Cvt long. Its leaves are linear, cylindrical and glabrous, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branches with broad, overlapping brown bracts at the base, the inner bracts often nearly as long as the sepal tube. The sepals are white and joined at the base, forming a tube more than Шаблон:Cvt long and woolly hairy on the outside with egg-shaped lobes slightly shorter than the sepal tube. The petals are white, tube-shaped and form a hood over the stamens.[1][2][3][4]

Taxonomy

Cryptandra alpina was first formally described in 1855 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror from specimens collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn.[5][6] The specific epithet (alpina) means "alpine".[7]

Distribution and habitat

Alpine pearlflower grows in alpine and subalpine areas in the Central Plateau area of Tasmania at an altitude of about Шаблон:Cvt.[3][4]

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