Adenanthos venosus

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Adenanthos venosus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Adenanthos
Section: Adenanthos sect. Adenanthos
Species:
A. venosus
Binomial name
Adenanthos venosus
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Habit in the Fitzgerald River National Park
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Adenanthos venosus is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the southwest of Western Australia. It is an openly-branched shrub with clustered egg-shaped leaves and reddish flowers.

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Description

Adenanthos venosus is an openly-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) and forms a lignotuber. Its leaves are mostly arranged in clusters at the ends of branches, egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, mostly 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long, 10 mm (0.39 in) wide and sessile. The leaves are mostly glabrous and have a pointed tip. The flowers are dull crimson to pinkish purple with a cream-coloured band in the centre and many glandular hairs on the outside. The perianth is about 25 mm (0.98 in) long and the style about 40 mm (1.6 in) long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from August to November. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Adenanthos venosus was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony. [4] [5] The specific epithet (venosus) means "with prominent veins". [6]

Distribution

This species grows among quartzite rocks and on rocky sandstone ridges in the Fitzgerald River National Park in the south-west of Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

This adenanthos is list as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2]

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References

  1. "Adenanthos venosus". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Adenanthos venosus". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 "Adenanthos venosus". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  4. "Adenanthos venosus". APNI. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  5. Meissner, Carl (1856). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. Paris: Victoris Masson. p. 311. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 334. ISBN   9780958034180.