Eumachia frutescens

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Eumachia frutescens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Eumachia
Species:
E. frutescens
Binomial name
Eumachia frutescens
Synonyms [1]

Hodgkinsonia frutescensC.T.White

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Habit in Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens

Eumachiaia frutescens, commonly known as turkey bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae and is native to north Queensland in Australia. It is an understorey plant with relatively large leaves, tube-shaped white flowers and red drupes.

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Description

Eumachiaia frutescens is an understorey plant that typically grows to a height of about 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) with leaves about 80–200 mm (3.1–7.9 in) long and 30–60 mm (1.2–2.4 in) wide with broadly triangular stipules that persist, even when the leaves have fallen. The flowers are white, the petals fused at the base to form a tube about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and glabrous outside but densely hairy inside, the anthers about 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long. The fruit is a red drupe about 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long and 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) wide, usually containing two seeds. [2]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1942 by Cyril Tenison White who gave it the name Hodgkinsonia frutescens in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland . [3] [4] The specific epithet (frutescens) means "becoming bushy". [5] In 2017, Laure Barrabé, Charlotte Morley Taylor and Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison transferred the species to the genus Eumachia as E. frutescens, in the journal Candollea . [6]

Distribution and habitat

Turkey bush grows on Cape York Peninsula and in north-east Queensland from sea level to 800 m (2,600 ft), usually in dry rainforest. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 F.A.Zich; B.P.M.Hyland; T.Whiffen; R.A.Kerrigan (2020). "Eumachia frutescens". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government . Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  3. "Hodgkinsonia frutescens". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  4. White, Cyril Tenison (1942). "Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 7". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 53: 220. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  5. George, Alex; Sharr, Francis (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (4th ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 202. ISBN   9780958034180.
  6. Taylor, Charlotte M.; Razafimandimbison, Sylvain G.; Barrabé, Laure; Jardim, Jomar G.; Barbosa, Maria Regina V. (2017). "Eumachia expanded, a pantropical genus distinct from Psychotria (Rubiaceae, Palicoureeae)". Candollea. 72: 310. Retrieved 4 July 2024.