Leionema oldfieldii

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Leionema oldfieldii
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Wild specimen growing on Gould's Plateau, Tasmania, Australia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Leionema
Species:
L. oldfieldii
Binomial name
Leionema oldfieldii

Leionema oldfieldii is a small shrub that is endemic to mountainous locations in Tasmania, Australia. It has dark green leaves, compact pale pink to white flowers from November to January.

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Description

Leionema oldfieldii is a small, compact shrub to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high. The branchlets are more or less needle-shaped, with usually star to upright shaped soft hairs. The leaves are leathery, smooth, shiny, egg-shaped to oblong-elliptic, 7–15 mm (0.28–0.59 in) long, 2.5–6 mm (0.098–0.236 in) wide, flat with slightly rolled edges and finely scalloped toward the rounded apex. The inflorescence is a tight group of terminal, pale pink to white flowers on a fleshy, smooth pedicel about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long with two small bracteoles near the base. The petals are elliptic, spreading, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long and smooth. The stamens are slightly longer than the petals. Flowering occurs from late spring to early summer. [2]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller and gave it the name Eriostemon oldfieldii and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae . [3] [4] In 1998 Paul G. Wilson changed the name to Leionema oldfieldii and the name change was published in the journal Nuytsia . [5] [6]

Distribution and habitat

Leionema oldfieldii grows in mountainous areas of the south and west coasts of Tasmania. [2]

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References

  1. "Leionema oldfieldii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 Wilson, Paul G. "Leionema oldfieldii". Flora of Australia-online. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  3. "Eriostemon oldfieldii". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  4. "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  5. "Leionema oldfieldii". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  6. Wilson, Paul G. (1998). "New species and nomenclatural changes in Phebalium and related genera (Rutaceae)". Nuytsia. 12 (2): 276. Retrieved 29 June 2020.