Psammomoya choretroides

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Psammomoya choretroides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Celastrales
Family: Celastraceae
Genus: Psammomoya
Species:
P. choretroides
Binomial name
Psammomoya choretroides
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]

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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]

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<i>Psammomoya</i>

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Psammomoya choretroides". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  2. 1 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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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. 1 2 3 Mueller, F.J.H. von (1889). "Description of a new Logania". The Victorian Naturalist. 6 (7): 118.

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