Philotheca coccinea

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Philotheca coccinea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Philotheca
Species:
P. coccinea
Binomial name
Philotheca coccinea
Synonyms [1]

Eriostemon coccineusC.A.Gardner

Philotheca coccinea is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with club-shaped leaves that are warty on the lower surface, and red to pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

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Description

Philotheca coccinea is an erect or spreading shrub that grows to a height of 0.3–1.5 m (1 ft 0 in–4 ft 11 in) and has branchlets covered with warty glands. The leaves are clup-shaped, about 10 mm (0.39 in) long and 1.5 mm (0.059 in) wide, smooth on the upper surface but with prominent warty glands on the lower side. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a drooping pedicel 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) long. There are five fleshy, broadly egg-shaped sepals about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long. The five petals are red to pink, rarely white, about 8 mm (0.31 in) long and joined in their lower half. The ten stamens are free from each other and densely woolly-hairy. [2] [3]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was first formally described in 1939 by Charles Gardner who gave it the name Eriostemon coccineus. The description was published in Hooker's Icones Plantarum from specimens collected by William Blackall west of Coolgardie in 1931. [4] In 1998 Paul G. Wilson changed the name to Philotheca coccinea in the journal Nuytsia . [5] [6]

Distribution and habitat

Philotheca coccinea grows in shrubland on rocky ridges and hillsides and on undulating plains from Southern Cross to Norseman. [2] [3]

Conservation status

This species is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Philotheca coccinea". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  2. 1 2 Wilson, Paul G.; Wilson, Annette J.G. (ed.) (2013). Flora of Australia (Volume 26). Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. pp. 376–377. Retrieved 31 July 2020.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. 1 2 3 "Philotheca coccinea". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. "Eriostemon coccineus". APNI. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  5. "Philotheca coccinea". APNI. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  6. Wilson, Paul G. (1998). "A Taxonomic Review of the genera Eriostemon and Philotheca". Nuytsia. 12 (2): 247. Retrieved 30 July 2020.