Lasiopetalum glutinosum

Last updated

Lasiopetalum glutinosum
Lasiopetalum glutinosum.jpg
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Lasiopetalum
Species:
L. glutinosum
Binomial name
Lasiopetalum glutinosum
Synonyms [1]
Flower detail Lasiopetalum glutinosum subsp, glutinosum - Flickr - Kevin Thiele.jpg
Flower detail

Lasiopetalum glutinosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, multi-stemmed shrub with densely hairy young stems, egg-shaped leaves often with three lobes and bright pink or dark red flowers.

Contents

Description

Lasiopetalum glutinosum is a spreading, multi-stemmed, sticky shrub that typically grows to 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) high and 0.2–1.5 mm (0.0079–0.0591 in) wide, its young stems covered with white and rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped, often with three lobes, mostly 10–53 mm (0.39–2.09 in) long and 3–44 mm (0.12–1.73 in) wide on a petiole 4.0–6.5 mm (0.16–0.26 in) long. Both surfaces of the leaves are covered with white and rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne in loose groups of two to twelve 38–111 mm (1.5–4.4 in) long, on a peduncle 22–49 mm (0.87–1.93 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 4.5–9 mm (0.18–0.35 in) long with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic bracts 2.5–5.8 mm (0.098–0.228 in) long at the base and similar bracteoles 3.3–9 mm (0.13–0.35 in) long near the base of the sepals. The sepals are bright pink or dark red, the lobes egg-shaped and 4.3–8.5 mm (0.17–0.33 in) long and there are no petals. The anthers are dark red with a white tip and 3.5–5.8 mm (0.14–0.23 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to December. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley who gave it the name Thomasia glutinosa in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony . [4] [5] In 1881, Ferdinand von Mueller changed the name to Lasiopetalum glutinosum in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae . [6] The specific epithet (glutinosum) means "sticky", referring to the flowers. [7]

In 2015 Kelly Anne Shepherd and Carolyn F. Wilkins described two subspecies and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

Distribution and habitat

This lasiopetalum grows in open woodland and low scrub, subspecies glutinosum mostly on the Darling Scarp near Perth in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions [3] [10] and subspecies latifolium between Badgingarra and Boddington in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions. [3] [11]

Conservation status

Lasiopetalum glutinosum subsp. latifolium is listed as "not threatened" [11] but subsp. glutinosum is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, [10] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat. [12]

Related Research Articles

<i>Thomasia quercifolia</i> Species of shrub

Thomasia quercifolia, commonly known as oak leaved thomasia, is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has egg-shaped, lobed leaves with a heart-shaped base, and pink to mauve flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum floribundum</i> Species of shrub

Lasiopetalum floribundum, commonly known as free flowering lasiopetalum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with hairy young stems, egg-shaped leaves and pale pink, mauve or white flowers.

<i>Commersonia corniculata</i> Species of plant

Commersonia corniculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with 3-lobed, egg-shaped leaves, and white to cream-coloured flowers.

Lasiopetalum adenotrichum is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the Fitzgerald River National Park in the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy foliage, narrow egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and groups of white to cream-coloured and dark reddish-purple flowers.

Lasiopetalum angustifolium, commonly known as narrow leaved lasiopetalum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a low spreading or dense, compact shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves and compact groups of pink to purplish flowers.

Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves and groups of pinkish flowers.

Lasiopetalum cenobium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is only known from the type location, not having been collected since 1918.

Lasiopetalum compactum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with leathery, narrowly oblong leaves and cymes of white to pinkish flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum drummondii</i> Species of plant

Lasiopetalum drummondii is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, slender shrub with many densely hairy stems, egg-shaped or oblong leaves and white, pink and red flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum glabratum</i> Species of shrub

Lasiopetalum glabratum is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy young stems, egg-shaped leaves and pale mauve-pink reddish-purple flowers.

Lasiopetalum laxiflorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a sticky, straggling subshrub or shrub with many densely hairy stems, egg-shaped leaves, and bright pink and dark red flowers.

Lasiopetalum lineare is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy young stems, linear leaves and bright pink and dark red flowers.

Lasiopetalum membranaceum is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub or subshrub with hairy young stems, egg-shaped leaves and mauve-pink and dark red flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum molle</i> Species of shrub

Lasiopetalum molle, commonly known as soft leaved lasiopetalum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading subshrub or shrub with hairy stems, thick and stiff egg-shaped leaves and pink flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum oldfieldii</i> Species of shrub

Lasiopetalum oldfieldii is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with rusty-hairy young stems, egg-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pink and dark red flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum oppositifolium</i> Species of shrub

Lasiopetalum oppositifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, erect shrub with rusty-hairy young stems, linear, narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped leaves and white, pink and dark red flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum rotundifolium</i> Species of shrub

Lasiopetalum rotundifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with hairy young stems, round leaves with a heart-shaped base, and pink and dark red flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum trichanthera</i> Species of plant

Lasiopetalum trichanthera is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to straggling, sticky shrub with many hairy stems, egg-shaped leaves and bright pink and dark red flowers.

<i>Lasiopetalum venustum</i> Species of plant

Lasiopetalum venustum is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy stems, egg-shaped, three-lobed leaves and pink and dark red flowers.

Thomasia × formosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with densely hairy branchlets, hairy, coarsely serrated, egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong leaves, and racemes of pink or purple flowers arranged in leaf axils.

References

  1. 1 2 "Lasiopetalum glutinosum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Lasiopetalum glutinosum". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Shepherd, Kelly A.; Wilkins, Carolyn F. (2015). "A revision of species from the tribe Lasiopetaleae (Byttnerioideae: Malvaceae) with rostrate anthers" (PDF). Nuytsia. 25: 176–178. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Thomasia glutinosa". APNI. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  5. ↑ Lindley, John (1839). A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. London: James Ridgway. p. xviii. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Lasiopetalum glutinosum". APNI. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  7. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 208. ISBN   9780958034180.
  8. ↑ "Lasiopetalum glutinosum subsp. glutinosum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  9. ↑ "Lasiopetalum glutinosum subsp. latifolium". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
  10. 1 2 "Lasiopetalum glutinosum subsp. glutinosum". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  11. 1 2 "Lasiopetalum glutinosum subsp. latifolium". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  12. ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.