Biology:Cryptandra nutans
| Cryptandra nutans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Cryptandra |
| Species: | C. nutans
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptandra nutans Steud.[1]
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Cryptandra nutans is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–60 cm (3.9–23.6 in) and has many stems at ground level. Its leaves are up to 4 mm (0.16 in) long, and the flowers are white, pink or cream-coloured and crowded in spikes on the ends of branches. The sepals are joined at the base to form a broadly bell-shaped tube, less than 2 mm (0.079 in) long with spreading lobes.[2] Flowering occurs in August and September.[3] It was first formally described in 1845 by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected in 1840.[4][5] The specific epithet (nutans) means "nodding".[6]
This cryptandra grows in gravelly sand or clayey soils over laterite in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[3]
References
- ↑ "Cryptandra nutans". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/87661.
- ↑ Bentham, George (1863). Flora Australiensis. 1. London: Lovell Reeve & Co.. p. 441. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6721561#page/499/mode/1up. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Cryptandra nutans". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/4804.
- ↑ "Cryptandra nutans". Australian Plant Name Index. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/805121.
- ↑ von Steudel, Ernst G. (1845). Plantae preissianae sive enumeratio plantarum quas in australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali. Hamburg: Sumptibus Meissneri. p. 186. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/498359#page/191/mode/1up. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780958034180.
Wikidata ☰ Q15537788 entry
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