Biology:Boronia tetragona
| Boronia tetragona | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Boronia |
| Species: | B. tetragona
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| Binomial name | |
| Boronia tetragona Paul G.Wilson[1]
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Boronia tetragona is a species of plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae, and is endemic to a small area of the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, perennial herb with simple, sessile leaves and pink, four-petalled flowers.
Description
Boronia tetragona is an erect, glabrous, perennial herb that grows to a height of 70 cm (28 in). Its stems are more or less square in cross-section with a smooth, sharp rib on each corner. The leaves are sessile, elliptic to egg-shaped or triangular, up to 40 mm (1.6 in) long and have warty edges. The flowers are borne in umbels on the ends of the branches on a thin peduncle up to 20 mm (0.79 in) long, the individual flowers on a thin pedicel up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long. There are smooth, dark red bracts at the base of the flowers. The four sepals are dark red and about 3 mm (0.12 in) long. The four petals are pink with a darker midline, egg-shaped and about 7 mm (0.3 in) long with a rounded tip. The eight stamens have warty glands near the tip. Flowering occurs from October to December.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
Boronia tetragona was first formally described in 1998 by Paul Wilson and the description was published in Nuytsia from a specimen collected by Gregory John Keighery near Busselton.[5][2] Wilson derived the specific epithet (tetragona) from the Greek words tetra meaning "four" and gona meaning "angle", referring to the four-sided branches.[2] Other sources give tessares (τέσσαρες) and gōnia (γωνία) as the Greek words for "four" and "angle".[6]
Distribution and habitat
This boronia grows in open woodland sometimes with sedges, between Capel and the Whicher Range in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions.[2][3]
Conservation
Boronia tetragona is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife,[3] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[7]
References
- ↑ "Boronia tetragona". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/164793. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Wilson, Paul G. (1998). "New names and new taxa in the genus Boronia (Rutaceae) from Western Australia, with notes on seed characters". Nuytsia 12 (1): 140–141. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224909#page/146/mode/1up. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Boronia tetragona". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/17804.
- ↑ Duretto, Marco F.; Wilson, Paul G.; Ladiges, Pauline Y.. "Boronia tetragona". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Boronia%20tetragona. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ "Boronia tetragona". APNI. https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/558585. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie.Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna". Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/plants-animals/threatened-species/Listings/Conservation%20code%20definitions.pdf. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
Wikidata ☰ Q15389850 entry
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