Darwinia pauciflora

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Darwinia pauciflora
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Darwinia
Species:
D. pauciflora
Binomial name
Darwinia pauciflora
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Darwinia pauciflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an open to bushy shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves and heads of erect, creamy-white and pink flowers.

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Description

Darwinia pauciflora is an open to bushy shrub that typically grows to height of 0.3–1.5 m (1 ft 0 in – 4 ft 11 in) and has many short side branches. Its leaves are oblong to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes overlapping, 2.0–4.2 mm (0.079–0.165 in) long and usually glaucous. The flowers are arranged in upper leaf axils or on the ends of branches, in heads of 3 to 6, surrounded by short, broad bracteoles but that fall off as the flowers open. The sepal tube is almost 4.2 mm (0.17 in) long and top-shaped with very short lobes. The petals are creamy-white and pink, almost as long as the sepal tube and the style is slightly longer than the petals. Flowering mainly occurs from May to October. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Darwinia pauciflora was first formally described in 1865 by George Bentham in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany from a specimen collected by Augustus Oldfield near the Hutt River. [4] [5] The specific epithet (pauciflora) means "few-flowered". [6] [7] [8]

Distribution and habitat

This darwinia is found on hillsides or sandplains in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions in the south-west of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils. [3]

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References

  1. "Darwinia pauciflora". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  2. Bentham, George (1867). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 3. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 12–13. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Darwinia pauciflora". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. "Darwinia pauciflora". APNI. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  5. Bentham, George (1867). "Note on the genera Darwinia, Rudge, and Bartlingia, Ad.Brongn". Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany. 9: 180. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 272. ISBN   9780958034180.
  7. Allen J. Coombes The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants , p. 106, at Google Books
  8. D. Gledhill The Names of Plants , p. 220, at Google Books