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Darwinia vestita

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Pom pom darwinia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Darwinia
Species:
D. vestita
Binomial name
Darwinia vestita
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[1]
  • Genetyllis agathosmoides Turcz.
  • Genetyllis vestita Endl.

Darwinia vestita, commonly known as pom-pom darwinia,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with crowded egg-shaped, oblong, or linear leaves and more or less spherical heads of white to reddish-pink flowers.

Description

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Darwinia vestita is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to height of 0.2–1 m (7.9 in – 3 ft 3.4 in) and has both short, and long arching branches. Its leaves are crowded, egg-shaped, oblong to almost linear, 2–4.5 mm (0.079–0.177 in) long, the upper surface concave and the lower surface with a prominent keel. The flowers are arranged in more or less spherical heads on a peduncle about 2 mm (0.079 in) long with bracts that fall off as the flowers open. The sepals are about 4 mm (0.16 in) long with small, scale-like lobes, the petals white or reddish-pink and about 2 mm (0.079 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to December.[2][3]

Taxonomy

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This species was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher who gave it the name Genetyllis vestita in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiæ ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel.[4][5] In 1865, George Bentham changed the name to Darwinia vestita and published the change in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany.[6] The specific epithet (vestita) means "clothed" or "covered", referring to the overlapping leaves in herbarium specimens.[7]

Distribution and habitat

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Darwinia vestita is found on stony hillsides, sandplains, granite outcrops, coastal areas and swamps in a wide area of the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Darwinia vestita". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Darwinia vestita". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. ^ Bentham, George (1867). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 3. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. p. 12. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Genetyllis vestita". APNI. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  5. ^ Endlicher, Stefan (1837). Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hugel. p. 47. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Darwinia vestita". APNI. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  7. ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 335. ISBN 9780958034180.