Английская Википедия:Boronia dichotoma

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Boronia dichotoma is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, slender perennial herb or shrub with simple leaves and pink, four-petalled flowers. The species is characterised by sticky glandular hairs on the pedicels.

Description

Boronia dichotoma is an erect slender herb or shrub that grows to a height of about Шаблон:Convert with slender branches. The leaves are glabrous, narrow oblong to elliptic or egg-shaped, Шаблон:Convert long, the upper leaves almost cylindrical in shape. The flowers are arranged in open, branched groups on the ends of the branches. Each flower is on the end of a thin pedicel with small bracts and bracteoles at the base. The pedicels have sticky glandular hairs. The four sepals are red, egg-shaped, about Шаблон:Convert long and fall off as the fruit develops. The four petals are pink, elliptic, Шаблон:Convert long and glabrous. The eight stamens are hairy on their outer edges and the stigma is small. Flowering occurs from August to December.[1][2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Boronia dichotoma was first formally described in 1841 by John Lindley and the description was published in Edwards's Botanical Register from a specimen collected by Georgina Molloy near "a beautiful turn of the River Vasse".[4][5]

Distribution and habitat

This boronia grows in winter-wet areas from near Perth to the Margaret River in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions.[1][2]

Conservation

Boronia dichotoma is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[2]

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