Psammomoya choretroides

Psammomoya choretroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Celastrales
Family:	Celastraceae
Genus:	Psammomoya
Species:	P. choretroides
Binomial name
Psammomoya choretroides (F.Muell.) Diels & Loes. [1] [2]
Synonyms [3]
Logania choretroides F.Muell.

Psammomoya choretroides is a small shrub in the Celastraceae family, endemic to the south west of Western Australia. ^[4] It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1889 as Logania choretroides, ^{[1] [5]} but was transferred to the genus, Psammomoya , in 1904 by Ludwig Diels and Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

Mueller described it as follows:

Comparatively dwarf glabrous \ stems and branches quadrangular, their angles prominent, their sides impressed and greyish; leaves reduced to minute deltoid or orbicular dark scalelets; flowers singly axillar, extremely small, imperfectly bisexual; pedicles very short, minutely bracteolate at the base; lobes of the calyx deltoid-semiovate; corolla whitish, cleft to the base, hardly twice as long as the calyx, quite glabrous, its segments orbicular-deltoid, much reflexed, with broad base sessile; stamens of the fruit-ripening flowers rudimentary \ disk conspicuous, lobeIcss; stigma roundish, nearly sessile, slightly bilobed; ovulary somewhat depressed; placentaries almost basal, each bearing two or three ovules. ^[5]

Etymology

Mueller considered the plant to be like a Choretrum , and hence described it using the species epithet, choretroides ("Choretrum-like"). ^[5]

References

1. "Psammomoya choretroides". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
2. Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G (6 December 1904). "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (in Latin). 35 (2–3): 340, fig. 41 A–H.
3. "Psammomoya choretroides Diels & Loes. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
4. L.W.Jessup (2020). "Psammomoya choretroides". Flora of Australia. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
5. Mueller, F.J.H. von (1889). "Description of a new Logania". The Victorian Naturalist. 6 (7): 118.

Further reading

• G.J. Keighery (2002). "Psammomoya (Celastraceae), a taxonomic review". Nuytsia . 14 (3): 385–392. doi:10.58828/NUY00372. ISSN   0085-4417. Wikidata   Q100730145.