Английская Википедия:Boronia forsteri

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Boronia forsteri is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to mountain ranges in central Queensland, Australia. It is an erect shrub with many branches, simple leaves with a densely hairy, pale underside, and pink, four-petalled flowers.

Description

Boronia forsteri is an erect, many-branched shrub which grows to a height of about Шаблон:Convert with its young branches densely covered with white to yellow hairs. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide and lack a petiole. The lower surface of the leaf is a much paler colour than the upper surface and has a dense layer of hairs. Usually only one but sometimes up to three pink flowers are arranged on a hairy stalk up to Шаблон:Convert long. The four sepals are egg-shaped to triangular, densely hairy, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The four petals are Шаблон:Convert long, Шаблон:Convert wide but enlarge as the fruit develop. The eight stamens are hairy. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit are Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Boronia forsteri was first formally described in 1999 by Marco F. Duretto and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya from a specimen collected near the property "Glenhaugton".[2] The specific epithet (forsteri) honours the Australian botanist Paul Irwin Forster.[1][3]

Distribution and habitat

This boronia grows in woodland and forest in sandstone country in the Chesterton, Carnarvon and Expedition Ranges and in the Central Highlands of Queensland.[1]

Conservation

Boronia forsteri is classed as "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4]

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