Cyanothamnus anemonifolius

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Sticky boronia
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Cyanothamnus anemonifolius in Maranoa Gardens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Cyanothamnus
Species:
C. anemonifolius
Binomial name
Cyanothamnus anemonifolius
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Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms [1]
  • Boronia anemonifolia A.Cunn.
  • Boronia anemonifolia var. dentigera(F.Muell.) Benth.
  • Boronia dentigeraF.Muell.
  • Cyanothamnus tridactylites Bartl.

Cyanothamnus anemonifolius, commonly known as narrow-leaved boronia or sticky boronia, [2] 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.

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Description

Cyanothamnus anemonifolius is an erect shrub that grows to a height of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) with pimply glands on its branches. The leaves are usually pinnate, sometimes simple or bipinnate, mostly 4–18 mm (0.16–0.71 in) long and 2–25 mm (0.079–0.98 in) wide in outline on a petiole usually 2–9 mm (0.079–0.35 in) long. The leaflets or simple leaves are wedge-shaped to elliptic or egg-shaped, mostly 2–9 mm (0.08–0.4 in) long, 1–4 mm (0.04–0.2 in) wide, the same colour on both sides and often with the tip divided into three lobes. The flowers are white to pale pink and are arranged singly or in groups of up to nine in leaf axils, the individual flowers on a pedicel 1–8 mm (0.039–0.31 in) long. The four sepals are broadly egg-shaped, 1.5–2.5 mm (0.06–0.1 in) long and 1–1.5 mm (0.04–0.06 in) wide. The four petals are 4–6 mm (0.2–0.2 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.08–0.1 in) with their bases overlapping. There are eight stamens with those near the sepals slightly longer than those nearer to the petals. Flowering occurs from August to April and the fruit is a glabrous capsule, 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long and about 2 mm (0.079 in) wide. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1825 by Allan Cunningham and given the name Boronia anemonifolia in the book Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales. [6] [7] In a 2013 paper in the journal Taxon , Marco Duretto and others changed the name to Cyanothamnus anemonifolus on the basis of cladistic analysis. [8] The specific epithet (anemoniifolius) is a reference to the similarity of the leaves of this species to those in the genus Anemone . [5]

In 2000, Peter Neish and Marco Duretto described four subspecies of B. anemonifolia, that were accepted by the Australian Plant Census: [5] The names have subsequently been changed to reflect the change in the genus name:

Distribution and habitat

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