Gossia floribunda
| Cape ironwood | |
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| Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Gossia |
| Species: | G. floribunda
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| Binomial name | |
| Gossia floribunda | |
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Gossia floribunda or Cape ironwood species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is a understorey plant growing to a height of 1 to 6 m (3 ft 3 in to 19 ft 8 in). Found in Cape York Peninsula Australia and also in New Guinea. Small white flowers form in abundance.[1][2]
The species was first described as Backhousia floribunda in 1984 by Andrew John Scott.[3][4] In 2003 Neil Snow, Gordon Guymer and G. Sawvel re-assigned to the genus, Gossia, to give its currently accepted name, Gossia floribunda.[3][5]
References
[edit]- ^ F.A.Zich; B.P.M.Hyland; T.Whiffen; R.A.Kerrigan (2020). "Gossia floribunda". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "Gossia floribunda". Queensland Government - Wetland Info. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Gossia floribunda". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ A.J. Scott (1984). "Two New Species of Myrtaceae from New Guinea". Kew Bulletin. 39 (3): 659-660 [659]. doi:10.2307/4108609. ISSN 0075-5974. JSTOR 4108609. Wikidata Q43222107.
- ^ Neil Snow; Gordon P. Guymer; G. Sawvel (2003). "Systematics of Austromyrtus, Lenwebbia, and the Australian Species of Gossia (Myrtaceae)". Systematic Botany Monographs. 65: 1-95 [72-73, Fig. 13]. doi:10.2307/25027907. ISSN 0737-8211. JSTOR 25027907. Wikidata Q55767955.
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