Phebalium glandulosum, commonly known as desert phebalium,[2] is a species of shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has glandular-warty stems covered with silvery to rust-coloured scales, wedge-shaped leaves that are scaly on the lower surface, and yellow flowers arranged in umbels on the ends of branchlets.
Description
Phebalium glandulosum is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–2.5m (1ft 8in– 8ft 2in). It has glandular-warty stems that are densely covered with silvery to rust-coloured scales. It has wedge-shaped leaves that are 3–30mm (0.12–1.18in) long and 1–5mm (0.039–0.197in) wide on a short petiole. Five to ten pale to bright yellow flowers are arranged in more or less sessile umbels on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel2–7mm (0.079–0.276in) long. The calyx is hemispherical to top-shaped, 1–1.5mm (0.039–0.059in) long, glandular warty and covered with scales on the outside. The petals are 2.5–3mm (0.098–0.118in) long and overlap each other. Flowering occurs in spring and the follicles are erect and 3–4mm (0.12–0.16in) long.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by English botanist William Jackson Hooker in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in 1848.[6][7]
In 1970, Peter G. Wilson described three subspecies of P. glandulosum in the journal Nuytsia, a further subspecies in 1998 in the same journal and in 2008 Robyn L. Giles described a further three in Australian Systematic Botany. The names of the six subspecies are accepted at the Australian Plant Census:
P. glandulosum subsp. angustifoliumPaul G.Wilson[8] (N.S.W.)
P. glandulosum subsp. eglandulosum(Blakely) Paul G.Wilson[9] (Qld., N.S.W.)
P. glandulosum Hook. subsp. glandulosum[10] (Qld., N.S.W.)
P. glandulosum subsp. macrocalyxR.L.Giles[11] (S.A., Qld., N.S.W., Vic.)
P. glandulosum subsp. nitidumPaul G.Wilson[12] (N.S.W.)
P. glandulosum subsp. ripariumR.L.Giles[13] (Vic., N.S.W.)
Subspecies eglandulosum is restricted to heath between granite rocks in the Torrington district in New South Wales and near Thulimbah in south-eastern Queensland.[4][16][17]
Subspecies glandulosum occurs in southern Queensland, inland New South Wales and southern South Australia.[10][18][19]
Subspecies macrocalyx grows in mallee woodland in western New South Wales, and in north-western Victoria where it is considered to be endangered.[20][21][22]
Subspecies nitidum is restricted to the Warrumbungles in north-western New South Wales where it grows on rocky basalt slopes.[23][24]
Subspecies riparium, commonly known as Snowy River phebalium, grows on rocky slopes and near streams in the Snowy Mountains, especially near the gorges of the Snowy River in Victoria and New South Wales.[25][26]
↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Phebalium glandulosum". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Phebalium glandulosum subsp. angustifolium". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Phebalium glandulosum subsp. eglandulosum". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Phebalium glandulosum subsp. glandulosum". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Phebalium glandulosum subsp. macrocalyx". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Phebalium glandulosum subsp. nitidum". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Phebalium glandulosum subsp. riparium". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
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