| Bauera microphylla | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Cunoniaceae |
| Genus: | Bauera |
| Species: | B. microphylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Bauera microphylla | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Bauera microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Cunoniaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small shrub with trifoliate, sometimes toothed leaves, and usually white, pedicellate flowers.
Bauera microphylla is a trailing shrub that typically grows to a height of 30 cm (12 in) and has a many spreading branches. The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets mostly 2–9 mm (0.079–0.354 in) long, 1.0–2.5 mm (0.039–0.098 in) wide and sometimes have two to six teeth on each edge. The flowers are borne on pedicels more than 5 mm (0.20 in) long and have five to seven toothed sepals 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long, five to seven usually white petals 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long, and ten to thirty cream-coloured stamens. Flowering occurs in spring and summer. [2] [3] [4]
Bauera microphylla was first formally described in 1830 by David Don in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , from specimens collected by George Caley. [5] [6] The specific epithet (microphylla) means "small leaves". [3]
This species of Bauera mostly grows in near-coastal heath north from Wollongong in New South Wales. [2] [3]
Grevillea longifolia, commonly known as fern-leaf spider flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Sydney Basin in New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to almost linear leaves, and toothbrush-like groups of pinkish-fawn flowers with a pink to red style. It is fairly readily grown in gardens.
Grevillea rosmarinifolia, commonly known as rosemary grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia and naturalised in other parts of the country. It is usually an erect, compact to open shrub with linear, narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong leaves with the edges rolled under, and loose clusters of pink to red flowers.
Bauera is a genus of four species of flowering plants in the family Cunoniaceae, all endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus Bauera are shrubs with trifoliate leaves arranged in opposite pairs and have flowers with four to ten sepals and four to ten white or pink petals.
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Zieria laevigata commonly known as smooth zieria, smooth-leaved zieria or twiggy midge bush is a species of flowering plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with smooth, three-part leaves and pale pink or white flowers with four petals and four stamens. It grows in poor soil on rocky outcrops and flowers from late winter to spring.
Persoonia cornifolia is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and hairy yellow flowers, and grows in northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland.
Gompholobium grandiflorum, commonly known as large wedge-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect, more or less glabrous shrub with trifoliate leaves and lemon-yellow and greenish, pea-like flowers.
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Cyanothamnus anemonifolius, commonly known as narrow-leaved boronia or sticky boronia, is a flowering plant that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with mostly pinnate leaves, with white to pale pink four-petalled flowers in leaf axils.
Prostanthera serpyllifolia, commonly known as small-leaved mint-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a small shrub with small egg-shaped leaves and bright pink to red or metallic bluish-green flowers.
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Styphelia triflora, commonly known as pink five-corners, is a flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae. It is an erect, spreading shrub with broad leaves with a spiky tip, and usually pink tubular flowers with the petals rolled back revealing the fluffy insides. It is found in New South Wales and Queensland growing on loam or sandy soils.
Hibbertia microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with weakly ascending stems, broadly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and yellow flowers, usually with ten stamens and up to nine staminodes arranged on one side of, and leaning over the two densely hairy carpels.
Pultenaea microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of up to ten yellow to red flowers with reddish markings.
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