Английская Википедия:Baeckea leptocaulis

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Baeckea leptocaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub with linear leaves and small white flowers with five or six stamens.

Description

Baeckea leptocaulis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt and has grey or brown branchlets. The leaves are linear, mostly Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are about Шаблон:Cvt in diameter and are borne in leaf axils on a peduncle about Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The sepals are oblong, about Шаблон:Cvt long and the petals are white, more or less round and Шаблон:Cvt long. There are five or six stamens, the ovary has two locules and the style is about Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering occurs between December and March and the fruit is a cylindrical to bell-shaped capsule Шаблон:Cvt long and wide.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Baeckea leptocaulis was first formally described in 1840 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in William Jackson Hooker's Icones Plantarum from specimens collected by Ronald Gunn at Rocky Cape.[3][4] The specific epithet (leptocaulis) means "thin-stemmed".[5]

Distribution and habitat

This baeckea grows in wet heathland and sedgeland in western and central Tasmania.[1][2]

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