Nematolepis

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Nematolepis
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Nematolepis squamea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Zanthoxyloideae
Genus: Nematolepis
Turcz. [1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms [1]

Nematolepis is a genus of seven species of plants in the family Rutaceae, all endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or small trees with more or less flat leaves arranged alternately and flowers with five overlapping petals and ten stamens. Six species are found in eastern Australia and one in Western Australia.

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Description

Plants in the genus Nematolepis are shrubs or small trees with their stems, leaves and sepals covered with shield-like scales. The leaves are simple and arranged alternately. The flowers are arranged singly or in cymes in leaf axils, and have five sepals, five partly overlapping petals and ten stamens, all free from each other in most species. The five carpels are free from each other, each with two ovules and the stigma is not differentiated from the style. The fruit usually has a single seed in each of the five follicles. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Taxonomy

The genus Nematolepis was first formally described in 1852 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou and the first species described was Nematolepis phebalioides . [6] [7]

Species list

The Australian Plant Census accepted seven species as at July 2020: [8]

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<i>Nematolepis phebalioides</i> Species of shrub

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References

  1. 1 2 "Nematolepis". Australian Plant Census.
  2. Walsh, Neville. "Nematolepis". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  3. Weston, Paul H.; Harden, Gwen J. "Genus Nematolepis". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  4. "Nematolepis". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  5. Wilson, Paul G.; Wilson, Annette J.G. (ed.) (2013). Flora of Australia (Volume 26). Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. pp. 447–448. Retrieved 29 July 2020.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  6. "Nematolepis". APNI. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  7. Turczaninow, Nikolai (1852). "Decas septima generum adhuc non descriptorum adjectis descriptionibus nonnullarum specierum". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 25 (3): 158. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  8. "Nematolepis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 29 July 2020.