Agonis grandiflora

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Agonis grandiflora
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Agonis
Species:
A. grandiflora
Binomial name
Agonis grandiflora
Synonyms [1]

Paragonis grandiflora(Benth.) J.R.Wheeler & N.G.Marchant

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Agonis grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, often straggly shrub with sessile, linear leaves, white flowers often suffused with pink and broadly cup-shaped capsules.

Description

Agonis grandiflora is an erect, often straggly sbrub that typically grows to a height of 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) and has many stems that are hairy at first, later glabrous. The leaves are sessile, linear, densely clustered, 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long and 0.5–1.2 mm (0.020–0.047 in) wide with a small point on the tip. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of 2, 3 or 4 in upper leaf axils. There are bracts, and bracteoles 3.5–5.5 mm (0.14–0.22 in) long. The floral tube is 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long, the sepals broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long. The petals are spatula-shaped, often suffused with pink, 6.5–8 mm (0.26–0.31 in) long and 12–17 mm (0.47–0.67 in) across. There are 22 to 35 stamens with filaments 2.5–4 mm (0.098–0.157 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November, and the fruit is a capsule 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long and 3.0–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) wide. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Agonis grandiflora was first formally described in 1867 by George Bentham in his Flora Australiensis . [1] [2] [4] In 2007, Judith R. Wheeler and Neville G. Marchant transferred the species to the genus Paragonis as P. grandiflora, and that name is accepted by the Western Australian Herbarium [5] and the Australian Plant Census, [6] but not accepted by Plants of the World Online. [1]

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in woodland and scrub in a few locations on the Darling Scarp in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions in the south-west of Western Australia. [3] [5]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Bentham, George (1867). Flora Australiensis. Vol. v. 3. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 100. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  3. 1 2 Wheeler, Judith R.; Marchant, Neville G. (2007). "A revision of the Western Australian genus Agonis (Myrtaceae) and two new segregate genera Taxandria and Paragonis". Nuytsia. 16 (2): 431–432. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  4. "Agonis grandiflora". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Paragonis grandiflora". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  6. "Agonis grandiflora". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 2 August 2024.