Английская Википедия:Commersonia corylifolia

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Commersonia corylifolia, commonly known as hazel-leaved rulingia,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spreading, erect shrub with egg-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and white to cream-coloured flowers.

Description

Commersonia corylifolia is a spreading, erect shrub that typically grows to Шаблон:Cvt high and Шаблон:Cvt wide and has pale star-shaped hairs on its new growth. The leaves are egg-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long with triangular stipules up to Шаблон:Cvt long at the base. The edges of the leaves have irregular teeth, the upper surface wrinkled and the lower surface densely covered with pale, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in dense, crowded clusters of 4 to 14 opposite leaf axils on a peduncle Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers have five white to cream-coloured, petal-like sepals and five white petals Шаблон:Cvt long with a hairy, linear ligule and a single hairy staminode between each pair of stamens. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a spherical capsule Шаблон:Cvt in diameter and densely-covered with white, star-shaped hairs.[2]

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1832 by Robert Graham who gave it the name Rulingia corylifolia in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.[3][4] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to the genus Commersonia in Australian Systematic Botany.[5] The specific epithet (corylifolia) means "hazel-leaved".[6]

Distribution and habitat

Hazel-leaved rulingia grows in sheltered forest and on roadsides between Augusta and Albany in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.[1]

Conservation status

Commersonia corylifolia is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.[1]

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