Biology:Phlebocarya pilosissima
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Commelinales |
| Family: | Haemodoraceae |
| Genus: | Phlebocarya |
| Species: | P. pilosissima
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| Phlebocarya pilosissima | |
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Phlebocarya ciliata var. pilosissima F.Muell. | |
Phlebocarya pilosissima is a plant in the Haemodoraceae family,[1] native to Western Australia.[3]
Description
Phlebocarya pilosissima has flattened to terete leaves. The leaf blade is 14-35 cm by 0.6-2 mm.[4] Leaf surfaces can be smooth to densely covered with sharp rigid bristly hairs (and on the margins).[4] The flower heads vary from being about half as long to longer than the leaves.[4] The scape is hairy and the bracts have branched hairs along the margin, while the pedicels are densely hairy.[4] The style is trifid and there are three stigmas.[4]
Taxonomy & etymology
The plant was first described as Phlebocarya ciliata var pilosissima by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1873,[1][5] but later in 1873 George Bentham erected it to the species Phlebocarya pilosissima.[1][2] The species epithet, pilosissima, comes from the Latin, pilus ("hair")[6] which gives the adjective, pilosus,[7] and its superlative, pilosissima,[6] thus describing the plant as being the "hairiest".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Phlebocarya pilosissima". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/81766.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "CXXIII. Amaryllideae". Flora Australiensis 6: 425. 1873. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12247409.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Phlebocarya pilosissima (F.Muell.) Benth. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:101845-3.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 T.D.Macfarlane (2020). "Phlebocarya pilosissima". Flora of Australia. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Phlebocarya%20pilosissima. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
- ↑ Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873). "Haemodoraceae". Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8 (59): 23. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/765053.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 , Wikidata Q101497897
- ↑ "pilosus,-a,-um". http://www.plantillustrations.org/epithet.php?id_epithet=204132.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q15316609 entry
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