Английская Википедия:Androcalva cuneata

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Androcalva cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading, densely hairy shrub that sometimes forms suckers and has wedge-shaped leaves and clusters of 5 to 15 pink flowers.

Description

Androcalva cuneata is a low, spreading, densely hairy, sometimes dense, suckering shrub that typically grows to Шаблон:Cvt high and Шаблон:Cvt wide. Its leaves are wedge-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long with narrowly egg-shaped stipules Шаблон:Cvt long at the base. The leaves are densely covered with white star-shaped hairs, and the edges are wavy or crumpled with irregular indentations. The flowers are arranged in clusters of 5 to 15 in upper leaf axils on a peduncle Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long, with linear bracts Шаблон:Cvt long at the base. The flowers are Шаблон:Cvt in diameter with 5 pink, petal-like sepals covered with white, star-shaped hairs, and 5 cup-shaped petals, the ligules shorter than the sepals. There is a single hairy, egg-shaped staminode. Flowering occurs from September to January and the fruit is a rounded capsule about Шаблон:Cvt in diameter.[1]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1852 by Nikolai Turczaninow who gave it the name Rulingia cuneata in the journal, Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond.[2][3] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to the genus Androcalva in Australian Systematic Botany.[4] The specific epithet means "wedge-shaped", referring to the leaves.[5]

Distribution and habitat

Androcalva cuneata grows in open woodland between Darkan and the Cape Arid National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[1][6]

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