| Muniria angustisepala | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Muniria |
| Species: | M. angustisepala |
| Binomial name | |
| Muniria angustisepala | |
Muniria angustisepala is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is an erect shrub with softly hairy, warty leaves and pale yellow, woolly flowers.
Muniria angustisepala is shrub which grows to a height of about 2 m (7 ft) and has branches that have four corners in cross-section and are densely hairy. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped, 3–7 cm (1–3 in) long, 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) wide, softly hairy, have a wrinkled, blistered upper surface. The leaf stalk is a further 4–10 mm (0.2–0.4 in) long. [2]
The flowers are solitary in groups of up to three in leaf axils on a short, sticky, hairy stalk. There are sticky, hairy bracts and bracteoles at the base of the flower. The five sepals are 13–18 mm (0.5–0.7 in) long and joined at their bases to form a short tube. The sepals are linear to narrow lance-shaped, sticky and hairy and ribbed on the outside. The petals are pale yellow, 18–25 mm (0.7–1 in) long and joined to form a tube 13–16 mm (0.5–0.6 in) long, sticky and slightly hairy on the outside but glabrous on the inside except for a dense ring of hairs around the ovary and a few hairs on the largest petal lobe. The petal lobes are broad egg-shaped and about 2.5–5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) long with the middle lower lobe the largest. The four stamens extend beyond the end of the tube, the lower pair longer than the upper ones. Flowering occurs from January to September and is followed by fruit which is oblong but with four distinct ridges and has the sepals attached. [2] [3]
This species was first formally described in 1979 by Ahmad Abid Munir from a specimen collected near the UDP Falls (now Gunlom Falls). It was given the name Pityrodia angustisepala and the description was published in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. [2] [4] In 2011, Barry Conn, Murray Henwood and Nicola Streiber described a new genus, Muniria and transferred this species to it. [1] The specific epithet (angustisepala) is derived from the Latin word angustus meaning "narrow" [5] : 90 and the Neo-Latin sepalum meaning "sepal". [5] : 695
This species only occurs in northern parts of the Northern Territory, including in Kakadu , Limmen, and Nitmiluk National Parks in the Arnhem Plateau, Darwin Coastal, Gulf Coastal, Gulf Fall and Uplands and Pine Creek biogeographic regions. [3]
Muniria angustisepala is classified as "least concern" under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act . [3]
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Pityrodia lepidota is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, densely-branched shrub with small leaves and whitish, bell-shaped flowers. The entire plant, apart from the petals, is densely covered with small, circular scales.
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Hemiphora exserta is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a sprawling shrub with its branches densely covered with white, woolly hairs. Its leaves are rough and wrinkled and the flowers are deep pink or dark red, curved and tube-shaped with spreading petal lobes on the end.
Hemiphora lanata is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a sprawling shrub with its branches and leaves densely covered with white, woolly hairs and with deep pink or dark red, curved, tube-shaped flowers with spreading petal lobes on the end. It is similar to Hemiphora exserta except for its cottony leaf-covering and its longer stamens.
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Quoya loxocarpa is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is an open shrub with many spindly tangled branches. The leaves are oblong and woolly when young and the flowers are whitish pink with purple spots inside and are surrounded by woolly sepals.
Pityrodia jamesii is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a spreading shrub with hairy, yellowish brown stems, sticky, hairy, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and white, bell-like flowers.
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Pityrodia ternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy stems, sticky and prickly, egg-shaped leaves, and mauve or pinkish-red, tube-shaped flowers.
Pityrodia serrata is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the northern part of the Northern Territory. It is an erect shrub with sharply-pointed, egg-shaped leaves with serrated edges, and off-white, bell-shaped flowers streaked with purple.
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