Phebalium longifolium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Family: | Rutaceae |
Genus: | Phebalium |
Species: | P. longifolium |
Binomial name | |
Phebalium longifolium | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Phebalium squamulosum subsp. longifolium(S.T.Blake) Paul G. Wilson Contents |
Phebalium longifolium is a species of shrub that is endemic to far north Queensland. It is more or less covered with silvery to rust-coloured scales and has smooth branchlets, narrow elliptical to narrow lance-shaped leaves and cream-coloured flowers in umbels on the ends of branchlets. It grows in the boundary between forest and rainforest in tropical areas.
Phebalium longifolium is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 3 m (9.8 ft). It is more or less covered with silvery to rust-coloured scales except for the upper surface of the leaves and the front of the petals. The leaves are narrow elliptical to narrow lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 15–80 mm (0.59–3.15 in) long and 2.5–10 mm (0.098–0.394 in) wide on a petiole 1.7–3 mm (0.067–0.118 in) long. The leaves are more or less glabrous and glossy green on the upper surface, densely covered with rust-coloured scales on the lower surface where there is a prominent mid-vein. The flowers are cream-coloured and arranged in small groups in umbels, each flower on a pedicel 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long. The calyx is top-shaped, 0.7–1.4 mm (0.028–0.055 in) long, 2.2–3 mm (0.087–0.118 in) wide and covered with warty glands and scales on the outside. The petals are elliptical, about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and densely covered with scales on the back. Flowering occurs from June to September. [2] [3]
Phebalium longifolium was first formally described in 1959 by Stanley Thatcher Blake in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland from specimens he collected near Wallaman Falls in 1951. [4] In 1970, Paul G. Wilson reduced P. longifolium to P. squamulosum subsp. longifolium, [5] [6] but in 2003, Paul Irwin Forster reinstated P. longifolium in the journal Austrobaileya and the name is accepted by the Australian Plant Census. [1] [3] [7]
This shrub grows on the edge of rainforest between the Herberton Range to the Paluma Range in tropical north Queensland. [2] [3]
This phebalium is classified as "least concern" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 . [8]
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