Английская Википедия:Boronia excelsa

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Boronia excelsa is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in Far North Queensland. It is an erect shrub with woolly-hairy branches, simple, stalkless, more or less hairless leaves, and pink to white, four-petalled flowers.

Description

Boronia excelsa is an erect shrub with many woolly-hairy branches that grows to about a height of Шаблон:Convert. It has simple, elliptic, sessile leaves Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The leaves are much paler on the lower surface. The flowers are pink to white and are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel Шаблон:Convert long. The four sepals are egg-shaped to triangular, about Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide and densely woolly-hairy on the back. The four petals are Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide, the eight stamens are hairy and the style is glabrous. Flowering occurs from July to August and the fruit is a glabrous capsule about Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

Boronia excelsa was first formally described in 1999 by Marco F. Duretto who published the description in the journal Austrobaileya from a specimen collected on the Mount Windsor Tableland.[3][1] The specific epithet (excelsa) is a Latin word meaning "high" or "lofty"[4] referring to the higher altitudes where this species occurs.[1]

Distribution and habitat

This boronia grows in wet forests and near the edges of rainforest above Шаблон:Convert and is restricted to the Mount Windsor Tableland.[1]

Conservation

This boronia is classified as "least concern" by the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Heritage Protection.[5]

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