Boronia crassipes
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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. crassipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Boronia crassipes | |
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| Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Boronia crassipes is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly, glabrous shrub with simple leaves, and pale red or pale mauve, four petalled flowers.
Description
[edit]Boronia crassipes is an erect, spindly shrub that grows to a height of about 0.5–3 m (2–10 ft). It has simple, linear to narrow elliptic leaves 10–15 mm (0.4–0.6 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a club-shaped pedicel about 6 mm (0.2 in) long. The four sepals are red, narrow triangular and 2–3 mm (0.08–0.1 in) long. The four petals are pale red or pale mauve, elliptic and about 7 mm (0.3 in) long. The eight stamens are about 2.5 mm (0.1 in) long a have a few soft hairs.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
[edit]Boronia crassipes was first formally described in 1845 by Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling and the description was published in Plantae Preissianae.[5][6] The specific epithet (crassipes) is derived from the Latin words crassus meaning "thick", "fat" or "stout"[7]: 237 and pes meaning "a foot".[7]: 600
Distribution and habitat
[edit]This boronia grows peaty heath, in winter-wet sawamps and along creeklines near Albany in the Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions.[2][3]
Conservation
[edit]Boronia crasspies 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.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Boronia crassipes". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ a b Duretto, Marco F.; Wilson, Paul G.; Ladiges, Pauline Y. "Boronia crassifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ a b c "Boronia crassipes". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ Bentham, George; von Mueller, Ferdinand (1863). Flora Australiensis (Volume 1). London: Lovell Reeve and Co. p. 322. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ "Boronia crassipes". APNI. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ Bartling, Friedrich Gottlieb (1845). Plantae Presiiianae. Hamburg. p. 168. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ a b Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- ^ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 6 March 2019.