Английская Википедия:Homoranthus coracinus

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Homoranthus coracinus is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in Queensland. It is a low, spreading shrub with pointed, narrow, egg-shaped leaves and groups of up to six flowers with black petals. It is only known from a single population in the Ka Ka Mundi part of the Carnarvon National Park.

Description

Homoranthus coracinus is a prostrate to low spreading shrub to Шаблон:Cvt high and Шаблон:Cvt wide with grey, stringy bark. The leaves are green or grey-green, pointed, narrowly egg-shaped Шаблон:Cvt long, about Шаблон:Cvt wide and Шаблон:Cvt thick, covered faintly with oil glands, petiole about Шаблон:Cvt long. The inflorescences are borne at the end of branches in pendulous clusters of 3-6 flowers, bracts Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt wide, glandular, apex rounded and the peduncle thick and Шаблон:Cvt long. The floral tube is cylindrical, Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt in diameter, yellow, 4 faint ribs at the base, smooth and pink-red toward the tip. The 5 sepals are upright, white, Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt wide and irregularly divided. The black petals are broadly egg-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt wide with smooth margins. Flowering occurs in April, May and September.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

Homoranthus coracinus was first formally described in 2000 by Anthony Bean from a specimen collected in the Ka Ka Mundi National Park (now part of Carnarvon National Park) and the description was published in Austrobaileya.[3] The specific epithet (coracinus) is a Latin word meaning "ravenlike" or "black as a crow",[4] referring to the colour of the petals.[1]

Distribution and habitat

This homoranthus grows in heath and sandstone outcrops in shallow soils and is endemic to the Mount Mooloolong area in Carnarvon National Park in central Queensland. heath on

Conservation status

The species is known from a single population. Bean (2000) species considered endangered. ROTAP code of 2ECit using Briggs and Leigh (1996) IUCN (2010) considered 'Endangered'.

References

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