Cryptandra pogonoloba

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Cryptandra pogonoloba
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Genus: Cryptandra
Species:
C. pogonoloba
Binomial name
Cryptandra pogonoloba

Cryptandra pogonoloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is a shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white to creamy-white, tube-shaped flowers.

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Description

Cryptandra pogonoloba is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in), its young branchlets covered with small, star-shaped hairs but not spiny. Its leaves are linear or elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 4.0–8.5 mm (0.16–0.33 in) long and 0.8–1.2 mm (0.031–0.047 in) wide on a petiole 0.3–0.9 mm (0.012–0.035 in) long. There are triangular to egg-shaped stipules 0.7–1.2 mm (0.028–0.047 in) long at the base of the petiole, but separate from each other. The lower surface of the leaves is densely hairy, or concealed. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils with 4 to 9 brown bracts at the base. The sepals are white to creamy-white and form a tube 0.7–0.8 mm (0.028–0.031 in) long with erect lobes 1.0–1.2 mm (0.039–0.047 in) long and hairy. The petals are white, protrude 0.2–0.4 mm (0.0079–0.0157 in) beyond the sepal tube, and form a hood over the stamens. Flowering has been observed from April to June, and the fruit is a schizocarp 2.1–2.4 mm (0.083–0.094 in) long. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

Cryptandra pogonoloba was first formally described in 2004 by Anthony Bean in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected in Bulleringa National Park in 1998. [2] [4] The specific epithet (pogonoloba) refers to the usual shape of the leaves. [2]

In 2006, Jürgen Kellerman described two subspecies of C. pogonoloba in the journal Muelleria , and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

Subspecies pogonoloba grows in sandy soil on sandstone in woodland from the Windsor Tablelands and Daintree National Park to the Gregory Range and subsp. septentrionalis grows in heath, shrubland and open woodland and is only known from between the Pascoe River and Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) National Park in far north Queensland. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cryptandra pogonoloba". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Bean, Anthony R. (2004). "New species of Cryptandra Sm. and Stenanthemum Reissek (Rhamnaceae) from northern Australia". Austrobaileya. 6 (4): 930–933. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Kellerman, Jürgen (2006). "A range extension for Cryptandra pogonoloba (Rhamnaceae: Pomaderreae) and recognition of a new subspecies". Muelleria. 24: 45–50. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Cryptandra pogonoloba". APNI. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "Cryptandra pogonoloba subsp. pogonoloba". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Cryptandra pogonoloba subsp. septentrionalis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
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