Marianthus drummondianus | |
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in the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Apiales |
Family: | Pittosporaceae |
Genus: | Marianthus |
Species: | M. drummondianus |
Binomial name | |
Marianthus drummondianus | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Marianthus drummondianus is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub, herb, or slender twiner with elliptic leaves and white, blue or purple flowers arranged in small clusters.
Marianthus drummondianus is a shrub, herb or slender climber with hairy new shoots. Its adult leaves are elliptic, 10–18 mm (0.39–0.71 in) long, 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) wide and sessile. The leaves are hairy at first, but become glabrous with age, apart from on the margins. The flowers are borne in small groups on pendent, softly-hairy peduncle up to 23 mm (0.91 in) long. The sepals are linear, blue and hairy, about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. The five petals are spatula-shaped, white, blue or purple and 12–18 mm (0.47–0.71 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to October. [2] [3] [4]
This species was first formally described in 1845 by Alois (Aloys) Putterlick who gave it the name Oncosporum drummondianum in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae . [5] [6] In 1863, George Bentham transferred the species to Marianthus as M. drummondianus in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae . [7] The specific epithet (drummondianus) honours James Drummond. [8]
Marianthus drummondianus grows in open woodland and forest on slopes, near creeks and on roadsides from the Darling Range near Perth to the Porongurup National Park, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [3] [2]
Verticordia habrantha, commonly known as hidden featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with short, leafy side-branches and long flowering stems with rounded heads of mostly white flowers. Its hairy sepals are mostly hidden by the round, unfringed petals, and as a result, the plant looks like shrubs in the genus Chamelaucium, to which it is closely related.
Grevillea drummondii, commonly known as Drummond's grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading to erect shrub with narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and dense groups of cream-coloured flowers that turn pink or red as they age.
Lasiopetalum baueri, commonly known as slender velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, greyish shrub with more or less linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves and groups of white or pink flowers.
Marianthus erubescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a woody, glabrous shrub or climber, with narrowly elliptic leaves and down-curved, red flowers arranged groups of three to six.
Verticordia lehmannii is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is slender shrub with only a few branches, well-spaced, oppositely arranged leaves and small heads of pale pink to silvery flowers with a dark pink centre.
Grevillea scabra, commonly known as the rough-leaved grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, open shrub with clusters of narrowly elliptic to more or less linear leaves and small clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers.
Grevillea trifida is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spiny, erect to low spreading shrub, usually with divided, variably-shaped leaves, and clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers.
Hibbertia commutata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, erect, many-branched shrub with narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped leaves, and yellow flowers with fifteen to thirty stamens arranged around three carpels.
Boronia fastigiata, commonly known as bushy boronia, is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with small leaves and small groups of red, pink or purple, four-petalled flowers near the ends of the branches.
Boronia stricta is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with often crowded pinnate leaves with linear leaflets, and pink, four-petalled flowers borne singly or in groups of two or three in leaf axils.
Leucopogon polymorphus is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped or almost linear leaves and short, dense spines of white, tube-shaped flowers.
Hibbertia microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with weakly ascending stems, broadly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and yellow flowers, usually with ten stamens and up to nine staminodes arranged on one side of, and leaning over the two densely hairy carpels.
Gompholobium villosum is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with simple, needle-shaped leaves with one or two grooves on the lower surface, and violet, pink or purple flowers.
Olearia lehmanniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to inland areas of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with scattered elliptic or linear leaves that are densely hairy on the lower surface, and pale mauve, daisy-like inflorescences.
Olearia strigosa, commonly known as bristly daisy bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves and blue or purple, daisy-like inflorescences.
Pimelea preissii is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and compact clusters of many white or pink flowers surrounded by 4 green, egg-shaped involucral bracts.
Pimelea villifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, dense shrub usually with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and compact heads of many white flowers usually surrounded by 6 to 10 pairs of green and yellowish, narrowly egg-shaped involucral bracts.
Billardiera lehmanniana, commonly known as kurup, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub or climber that has linear to oblong leaves with the edges curved upwards and large groups of flowers with widely spreading pale mauve petals that darken as they age.
Marianthus bicolor, commonly known as painted marianthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a low, erect, spreading shrub or climber with narrowly elliptic leaves and white to cream-coloured flowers with maroon or purple striations flowers arranged in branched clusters.
Marianthus coeruleopunctatus, commonly known as blue-spotted marianthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a twining shrub or climber with narrowly elliptic leaves and pale blue flowers sometimes with dark blue spots or lines, arranged in branched clusters.