Baeckea brevifolia (Rudge) DC.

Baeckea brevifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with narrow egg-shaped to oblong leaves and white to pink flowers with nine to fifteen stamens.

Description

Baeckea brevifolia is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). The leaves are elliptic to narrowly oblong, triangular in cross-section, 1.0–2.3 mm (0.039–0.091 in) long, 0.7–1.0 mm (0.028–0.039 in) wide and sessile. The flowers are up to 7.5 mm (0.30 in) wide and arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel 0.5–2.5 mm (0.020–0.098 in) long with bracteoles 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long. The five sepals are reddish and lobed, the lobes 0.5–1.2 mm (0.020–0.047 in) long. The five petals are white to pale pink and 1.9–2.5 mm (0.075–0.098 in) long, there are usually nine to fifteen stamens and the style is about 1.0 mm (0.039 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from July to September and the fruit is 1.7–2.0 mm (0.067–0.079 in) in diameter.^[2][3][4]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described in 1807 by Edward Rudge who gave it the name Leptospermum brevifolium in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.^[5][6] In 1828, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle changed the name to Baeckea brevifolia in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.^[7] The specific epithet (brevifolia) means "short-leaved".^[8]

Distribution and habitat

This baeckea is a common heathland shrub that mainly grows on sandstone soils on the coast and nearby ranges of New South Wales between Woy Woy and Milton.^[2][3][8]

References

Baeckea brevifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong Họ Đào kim nương. Loài này được (Rudge) DC. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1828.^[1]

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Liên kết ngoài

• Phương tiện liên quan tới Baeckea brevifolia tại Wikimedia Commons

• Dữ liệu liên quan tới Baeckea brevifolia tại Wikispecies
• Vườn thực vật hoàng gia Kew; Đại học Harvard; Australian Plant Name Index (biên tập). “Baeckea brevifolia”. International Plant Names Index. Truy cập ngày 7 tháng 6 năm 2013.