Lechenaultia acutiloba

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Wingless leschenaultia
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Lechenaultia acutiloba in the Australian National Botanic Gardens
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Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Goodeniaceae
Genus: Lechenaultia
Species:
L. acutiloba
Binomial name
Lechenaultia acutiloba

Lechenaultia acutiloba, commonly known as wingless leschenaultia, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dome-shaped shrub with crowded, linear leaves and many tube-shaped, pale greenish-yellow flowers with blue tips.

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Description

Lechenaultia acutiloba is a dome-shaped shrub that typically grows up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) wide, often with many thin stems. Its leaves are crowded, linear, glabrous 3.0–5.5 mm (0.12–0.22 in) long and greyish green. There are many sessile flowers arranged singly on the ends of branchlets with glabrous, lance-shaped sepals 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long. The petals form an erect, greenish-yellow tube with blue tips 21–25 mm (0.83–0.98 in) long, the tube white and hairy inside. Flowering occurs from mid-September to late December. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Lechenaultia acutiloba was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected near the Young River by George Maxwell. [5] [6] The specific epithet (acutiloba) means "sharp-pointed lobes", referring to the petals. [7]

Distribution and habitat

Wingless leschenaultia usually grows near river banks, sometimes in swamps and is found between Ongerup and Ravensthorpe in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. [2] [3] [4]

Conservation status

Lechenaultia acutiloba is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [2] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. [8]

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<i>Lechenaultia biloba</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia biloba, commonly known as blue leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous herb or subshrub with spreading branches, almost no leaves, and yellow, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia linarioides</i> Species of shrub

Lechenaultia linarioides, commonly named yellow leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas in the west of Western Australia. It is a sprawling subshrub with many tangled branches, narrow, crowded, rather fleshy leaves, and yellow and deep pink to purplish red flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia formosa</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia formosa, commonly known as red leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate or erect shrub or subshrub with crowded, narrow, fleshy leaves and scarlet or orange-red to pale orange flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia tubiflora</i> Species of plant

Lechenaultia tubiflora, commonly known as heath leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a hemispherical subshrub or more or less erect perennial with crowded, narrow, rigid leaves and variably-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.

Lechenaultia aphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to arid parts of inland Australia. It is a glabrous herb or subshrub with spreading branches, almost no leaves, and yellow, tube-shaped flowers.

Lechenaultia chlorantha, commonly known as Kalbarri leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Kalbarri in Western Australia. It is a subshrub or shrub with many branches, crowded, narrow, fleshy leaves and pale bluish-green, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia expansa</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia expansa is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to erect subshrub with wand-like branches, crowded, narrow, fleshy leaves and pale purple-blue, tube-shaped flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia floribunda</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia floribunda, commonly known as free-flowering leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly-branched shrub or subshrub with crowded, narrow, fleshy leaves and compact groups of pale blue to pale mauve or creamy white flowers.

Lechenaultia galactites, commonly known as white leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, robust subshrub or shrub with crowded, narrowly oblong to egg-shaped leaves, and white to pale blue flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia heteromera</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia heteromera, commonly known as claw leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a subshrub with a few wand-like branches, fleshy leaves, and white and pale blue flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia hirsuta</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia hirsuta, commonly known as hairy leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a straggling, low-lying shrub with few branches, fleshy leaves, and scarlet flowers.

Lechenaultia juncea, commonly known as reed-like leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, perennial herb or shrub with crowded, fleshy leaves, and pale blue flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia laricina</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia juncea, commonly known as scarlet leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, ascending shrub with narrow, crowded, rather fleshy leaves, and scarlet to orange-red flowers.

Lechenaultia lutescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland central Australia. It is a wand-shaped, ascending herb or subshrub with rigid, narrow leaves, and orange-yellow to pale yellow or creamy-white flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia magnifica</i> Species of flowering plant

Lechenaultia magnifica, commonly known as magnificent leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, perennial herb or subshrub with crowded, linear to narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and pink to mauve or purple flowers.

Lechenaultia papillata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a diffuse, ascending shrub or subshrub with papillate, crowded, slightly fleshy leaves, and pale blue flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia pulvinaris</i> Species of shrub

Lechenaultia pulvinaris, commonly known as cushion leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to inland areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a low-lying, hemispherical shrub with narrow, rigid, crowded, hairy leaves, and pale blue or purple flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia stenosepala</i> Species of shrub

Lechenaultia stenosepala, commonly known as narrow-sepaled leschenaultia,is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, more or less erect perennial herb or shrub with crowded, narrow leaves, and blue to pale blue or creamy-white flowers.

<i>Lechenaultia superba</i> Species of shrub

Lechenaultia superba, commonly known as Barrens leschenaultia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of southern Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with crowded, narrow, fleshy leaves and yellow, red, or yellow and orange flowers.

References

  1. "Lechenaultia acutiloba". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Lechenaultia acutiloba". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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  4. 1 2 "Lechenaultia acutiloba". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  5. "Lechenaultia acutiloba". APNI. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  6. Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1868). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 4. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 41. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  7. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 127. ISBN   9780958034180.
  8. "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 20 January 2022.