Biology:Streptoglossa bubakii

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Streptoglossa bubakii
Streptoglossa bubakii inflorescence.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Streptoglossa
Species:
S. bubakii
Binomial name
Streptoglossa bubakii
(Domin) Dunlop[1]

Streptoglossa bubakii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and grows in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is an upright, aromatic perennial herb with pink, purplish-blue or red to brown flowers.

Description

Streptoglossa bubakii is a perennial with woody branches and herbaceous branches growing to 70 cm (28 in) high. The leaves and branches are strongly fragrant, sticky and covered with soft, weak, thin hairs to long, soft, straight hairs and thickly glandular. The stems are upright or ascending, leafy, older plants many branched and dense. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped or egg-shaped, apex sharp, blunt or rounded, narrowing gradually at the base, 1–7 cm (0.39–2.76 in) long, 0.2–18 cm (0.079–7.087 in) wide, margins smooth or toothed. The capitula are in clusters of 40-100 flowers on long or occasionally short branches near the top of the plant and the involucre 1–1.5 cm (0.39–0.59 in) long. The corolla has 5 lobes, 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long, glandular with occasional soft, weak, thin hairs, rarely smooth. Flowering occurs from May to October and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long, silky with flattened hairs and ribbed.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy and naming

Streptoglossa bubakii was first described by Karel Domin as Pterigeron bubakii.[5] In 1981 Clyde Robert Dunlop changed the name to Streptoglossa bubakii and the description was published in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden.[2][6] The specific epithet (bubakii) was named after the botanist František Bubák.[7]

Distribution and habitat

This streptoglossa grows usually in areas near clay plains in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.[4]

References

  1. "Streptoglossa bubakii". Australian Plant Census. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/92503. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dunlop, C.R (1981). "Streptoglossa bubakii". Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 3 (2): 173. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23872234. Retrieved 22 June 2022. 
  3. Spooner, Amanda. "Streptoglossa bubakii". Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/8235. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Dunlop, C.R; Orchard, A.E (1992). Flora of Australia 37 Asteraceae 1 (1st ed.). Canberra: ABRS. p. 426. ISBN 9781486304165. 
  5. "Pterigeron bubakii". Australian Plant Name Index. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/57628/api/apni-format. 
  6. "Streptoglossa bubakii". Australian Plant Name Index. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/515120. 
  7. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2021). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (4th ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780958034180. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15554486 entry