Biology:Baeckea grandis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Baeckea grandis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Baeckea
Species:
B. grandis
Binomial name
Baeckea grandis
E.Pritz.[1]

Baeckea grandis is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an ascending to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.5 metres (0.3 to 1.6 ft) and blooms between September and December producing pink and white flowers. Found on sand-plains and hills in the Mid West and northern Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia, it grows in sandy and lateritic soils.[2]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Ernst Georg Pritzel in 1904 in Engler's journal Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie in an article by Pritzel and Ludwig Diels entitled Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis.[3][4] The specific epithet (grandis) means "great, large or tall".[5]

See also

References

  1. "Baeckea grandis". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/104440. 
  2. "Baeckea grandis". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/5351. 
  3. "Baeckea grandis". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/533380. 
  4. Diels, Ludwig; Pritzel, Ernst G. (1904). "Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35 (2–3): 417. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/126889#page/446/mode/1up. Retrieved 20 January 2022. 
  5. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 210. ISBN 9780958034180. 

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