Micrantheum hexandrum | |
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Micrantheum hexandrum Mount Buffalo National Park, Victoria | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Picrodendraceae |
Genus: | Micrantheum |
Species: | M. hexandrum |
Binomial name | |
Micrantheum hexandrum | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Micrantheum hexandrum, commonly known as box micrantheum, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, monoecious shrub with oblong to narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and small white flowers with six or nine stamens. Picrodendraceae.
Micrantheum hexandrum is an erect, monoecious, more or less glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of about 2 m (6 ft 7 in). The leaves are oblong to narrowly lance-shaped or lance-shaped, with the narrower end towards the base, 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide with a small point on the tip. Male flowers are borne on a peduncle about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, the sepals egg-shaped and 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long, and have six or nine stamens. Female flowers are more or less sessile, the sepals lance-shaped to egg-shaped and 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long. Flowering mostly occurs from October to February, and the fruit is an oval to spherical capsule 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Micrantheum hexandrum was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in the London Journal of Botany from specimens collected near Launceston. [6] [7] The specific epithet (hexandrum) means "six stamens". [8]
Box micrantheum grows on rocky sites and near watercourses, often at higher altitudes, from south-eastern Queensland, along the coast and tablelands of New South Wales to scattered places in eastern Victoria and to eastern Tasmania. [2] [3] [4] [5] [9]
Micrantheum is a genus of four species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Micrantheum are heath-like, monoecious shrubs with simple leaves usually in groups of three, and flowers arranged singly or in small clusters in leaf axils, male flowers with three, six or nine stamens.
Thryptomene micrantha, commonly known as ribbed thryptomene, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers with five petals and five stamens.
Pimelea humilis, also known as common riceflower or dwarf riceflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or scrambling shrub with hairy stems, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and heads of 12 to 52 of creamy-white, bisexual or female flowers.
Velleia montana, commonly known as mountain velleia, is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, perennial herb with tubular yellow flowers, mainly growing in woodland and sub-alpine grasslands in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
Goodia lotifolia, commonly known as golden tip or clover tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a sometimes tall shrub with trifoliate leaves, the leaflets narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and bright yellow, pea-like flowers with red or brown markings.
Zieria arborescens, commonly known as the tree zieria or stinkwood, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a bushy shrub or small tree with branches that are ridged and scaly or hairy, at least when young. It has leaves composed of three leaflets and groups of flowers with four white petals, the groups usually shorter than the leaves.
Micrantheum ericoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small, heath-like, monoecious shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and small white or pinkish flowers arranged singly or in pairs.
Hibbertia ericifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is small, sometimes low-lying to spreading shrub with wiry stems, linear to narrow elliptic leaves, and yellow flowers arranged on the ends of branchlets, with ten to twenty-four stamens arranged around the three carpels.
Hibbertia marginata, commonly known as bordered guinea flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the North Coast of New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with hairy young branches, oblong to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with thirty to forty stamens and many staminodes arranged around three hairy carpels.
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Pseudanthus divaricatissimus is a flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and grows in scattered locations in central New South Wales and Tasmania. It is a decumbent to spreading shrub with pale red flowers.
Philotheca virgata, commonly known as Tasmanian wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with wedge-shaped to oblong leaves and white or pale pink flowers at the ends of branchlets. It is the only philotheca with four sepals and petals.
Hovea magnibractea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly oblong to lorate (strap-shaped) leaves, and mauve and yellow, pea-like flowers.
Androcalva incilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with dark green, narrowly wedge-shaped to narrowly oblong leaves, and crowded heads of 8 to 12 deep pink flowers.
Ricinocarpos ledifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to eastern Queensland. It is a monoecious or dioecious shrub or small tree with linear leaves and white flowers, arranged either singly, or with two or three female or two to six male flowers, or a single female flower surrounded by two male flowers.
Ricinocarpos marginatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, monoecious shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and white flowers arranged in groups of male flowers, or up to three female flowers surrounded by many male flowers.
Micrantheum demissum is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to the south-east of South Australia. It is a dense, dwarf, monoecious shrub with lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves arranged in whorls of three, and pink flowers, arranged in leaf axils in groups of up to three.
Pseudanthus ballingalliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a monoecious shrub with simple, oblong to narrowly oblong leaves and small yellow male and green female flowers arranged singly in upper leaf axils, but appearing clustered on the ends of branches.
Pseudanthus ligulatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to northern Queensland. It is a monoecious shrub with simple, lance-shaped or linear to narrowly oblong leaves and creamy white male and pale green female flowers arranged singly in upper leaf axils, but appearing clustered on the ends of branches.
Ricinocarpos oliganthus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to a small are in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a monoecious shrub with linear to narrowly oblong leaves and white to creamy white flowers arranged singly on the ends of branchlets.