Biology:Psammomoya choretroides
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Short description: Species of shrub
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Genus: | Psammomoya |
| Species: | P. choretroides
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Logania choretroides F.Muell. | |
Psammomoya choretroides is a small shrub in the Celastraceae family, endemic to the south west of Western Australia.[4] It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1889 as Logania choretroides,[1][5] but was transferred to the genus, Psammomoya, in 1904 by Ludwig Diels and Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener.[1][2]
Description
Mueller described it as follows:
Comparatively dwarf glabrous \ stems and branches quadrangular, their angles prominent, their sides impressed and greyish; leaves reduced to minute deltoid or orbicular dark scalelets; flowers singly axillar, extremely small, imperfectly bisexual; pedicles very short, minutely bracteolate at the base; lobes of the calyx deltoid-semiovate ; corolla whitish, cleft to the base, hardly twice as long as the calyx, quite glabrous, its segments orbicular-deltoid, much reflexed, with broad base sessile; stamens of the fruit-ripening flowers rudimentary \ disk conspicuous, lobeIcss; stigma roundish, nearly sessile, slightly bilobed; ovulary somewhat depressed; placentaries almost basal, each bearing two or three ovules.[5]
Etymology
Mueller considered the plant to be like a Choretrum, and hence described it using the species epithet, choretroides ("Choretrum-like").[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Psammomoya choretroides". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/70889.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G (6 December 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): 340, fig. 41 A–H. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42874069.
- ↑ "Psammomoya choretroides Diels & Loes. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:162423-1.
- ↑ L.W.Jessup (2020). "Psammomoya choretroides". Flora of Australia. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Psammomoya%20choretroides. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Mueller, F.J.H. von (1889). "Description of a new Logania". The Victorian Naturalist 6 (7): 118. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30015956.
Further reading
Wikidata ☰ Q15332653 entry
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