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Leionema
''Leionema'' is a genus of more than 20 species of mostly small shrubs in the family Rutaceae, most of which are endemic species, endemic to eastern Australia. Plants within this genus have scented foliage and clustered, star-shaped flowers which range in colour from cream to bright yellow. Prior to 1998, all species within this genus were included in the genus ''Phebalium''. Species list The following is a list of species and subspecies accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2020, and including the New Zealand endemic ''Leionema nudum'': *''Leionema ambiens'' (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson — forest phebalium *''Leionema bilobum'' (Lindl.) Paul G.Wilson — notched phebalium ** ''Leionema bilobum'' (Lindl.) Paul G.Wilson subsp. ''bilobum'' ** ''Leionema bilobum'' subsp. ''serrulatum'' (F.Muell.) Duretto & K.L.Durham ** ''Leionema bilobum'' subsp. ''thackerayense'' Duretto & K.L.Durham ** ''Leionema bilobum'' subsp. ''truncatum'' (Hook.f.) Duretto & K.L.Durham *''Leion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Nudum
''Leionema'' is a genus of more than 20 species of mostly small shrubs in the family Rutaceae, most of which are endemic species, endemic to eastern Australia. Plants within this genus have scented foliage and clustered, star-shaped flowers which range in colour from cream to bright yellow. Prior to 1998, all species within this genus were included in the genus ''Phebalium''. Species list The following is a list of species and subspecies accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2020, and including the New Zealand endemic ''Leionema nudum'': *''Leionema ambiens'' (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson — forest phebalium *''Leionema bilobum'' (Lindl.) Paul G.Wilson — notched phebalium ** ''Leionema bilobum'' (Lindl.) Paul G.Wilson subsp. ''bilobum'' ** ''Leionema bilobum'' subsp. ''serrulatum'' (F.Muell.) Duretto & K.L.Durham ** ''Leionema bilobum'' subsp. ''thackerayense'' Duretto & K.L.Durham ** ''Leionema bilobum'' subsp. ''truncatum'' (Hook.f.) Duretto & K.L.Durham *''Leion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Phylicifolium
''Leionema phylicifolium'', commonly known as alpine phebalium, is a shrub that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with green, smooth, leathery leaves and pale yellow flowers in spring. Description ''Leionema phylicifolium'' is a compact shrub to high, branchlets are more or less needle-shaped with star to upright shaped soft hairs. The leathery, smooth leaves are oblong to elliptic shaped or narrow with recurved edges, long, wide and smooth margins. The inflorescence is a cluster of mostly 3-4 flowers in a cylindrical arrangement at the end of branches on a small stalk or a peduncle to long in leaf axils. The flower cluster is on a more or less fleshy, smooth pedicel long and has tiny egg-shaped bracts. The smooth calyx lobes are triangular shaped, and smooth. The petals are narrowly elliptic, spreading, long and pale yellow and stamens marginally longer than petals. The dry fruit has occasional hairs, rounded at the apex, about long and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Elatius
''Leionema elatius'', commonly known as tall phebalium, is a shrub species that is endemism, endemic to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. It has glossy green, variably-shaped leaves and clusters of white-lemon flowers in spring. Description ''Leionema elatius'' is a shrub that grows to high with either smooth stems or with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are flat, lance-shaped, oblong or narrowly oval to spoon-shaped, long, wide, upper surface shiny and smooth with a distinctive midrib below. The inflorescences are at the end of branches crowded by the leaves, pedicel (botany), pedicels and peduncle (botany), peduncles both slim. The calyx (botany), calyx lobes are wide-triangular shaped and fleshy. The flower petals are white to light yellow, long and glandular. The fruit are about long and furrowed. Flowering occurs in spring. Taxonomy and naming Tall phebalium was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller, who gave it the name ''Eriostemon ela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Ambiens
''Leionema ambiens'' is a rare shrub growing in the Guyra district of New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. It has long stem clasping leaves and heads of white flowers in spring and early summer. Description ''Leionema ambiens'' is a small shrub to high with smooth, mostly needle-shaped stems. The flat leaves may be elliptic, egg-shaped or a wide oblong, long and wide, apex either pointed or rounded, stem-clasping, obvious midrib and margins slightly toothed. The inflorescence is a terminal cluster of 20–200 white flowers, petals about long on an angled pedicel. The seed pod is more or less upright, about long with a small beak. Flowering occurs from spring to early summer. Taxonomy and naming The species was first formally described in 1868 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name ''Eriostemon ambiens'' and the description was published in ''Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae''. In 1998 Paul G. Wilson changed the name to ''Leionema ambiens'' and the description ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Bilobum
''Leionema bilobum'', commonly known as notched phebalium, is a shrub species of the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to south-eastern Australia. The species was first formally described by English botanist John Lindley from material collected during Thomas Mitchell's exploration of the Grampians. His description was published in 1838 in ''Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia''. Lindley gave it the name ''Phebalium bilobum''. The species was transferred to the genus ''Leionema'' by Paul G. Wilson in 2003. Four subspecies were formally described in 2006: * ''bilobum'' — the nominate subspecies from the eastern Grampian Ranges, Victoria. * ''serrulatum'' (F.Muell.) Duretto & K.L.Durham — a long leaved form from Gippsland, Victoria. *''thackerayense'' Duretto & K.L.Durham — a form with smooth-edged leaves without a bilobed tip. Occurs in the Western Grampians Ranges (including Mount Thackeray) and the Black Range. *''truncatum'' (Hook.f.) Duretto & K.L.Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Praetermissum
''Leionema praetermissum'', is a shrub with warty stems covered in hairs, white flowers with spreading petals, and prominent stamens. It has a restricted distribution in New South Wales. Description ''Leionema praetermissum'' is a shrub to high with several or few stems emanating from the base. The stems are warty and needle-shaped with occasional white star-shaped hairs. The leaves are smooth, narrow, linear to lance shaped, long, edges slightly rolled under, arranged alternately, sometimes crowded, smooth and sessile or on a short petiole long, and ending with a sharp point. The inflorescence is a cluster of 3-10 flowers at the end of branches or in the leaf axils on a pedicel long, flowers barely longer than the leaves. The peduncle is slender and warty, the pedicels long. The triangular, narrow calyx lobes are smooth on the outside with a stiff apex. The 5 petals are spreading, each petal long, upperside white, underneath pale green, glandular and there are 10 promin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Lachnaeoides
''Leionema lachnaeoides'', is a tall shrub with aromatic leaves and yellow flowers from winter to late spring. It is restricted to the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Description ''Leionema lachnaeoides'' is a tall shrub to high with white stems covered in fine, smooth, silver star-shaped hairs quickly becoming smooth. The leaves are more or less terete , long, wide, arranged alternately along the branches on a flattened petiole, with a slight upward curve and ending in a point. The leaf upper and lower side and edges are smooth, surface leathery, margins rolled under almost obscuring the paler underside. The flowers are borne singly on a short peduncle about long in upper leaf axils and covered in soft star-shaped hairs. The pedicel is fleshy and about long with 4 tiny bracts at the base. The green calyx lobes are triangular-shaped, about long and smooth. The spreading, five yellow flower petals are narrowly oval shaped, about long, smooth and dotted with glands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Carruthersii
''Leionema carruthersii'' is a small shrub that is endemic to southern New South Wales in Australia. It has mostly greenish-yellow flowers, distinctive stamens and lance to egg-shaped leaves. Description ''Leionema carruthersii'' is a small shrub up to high. It has oval to lance shaped leaves about long, wide, rolled edges and either heart shaped or squared at the leaf base on needle-like stems that have occasional fine, weak hairs. The leaves are widely spread with a short petiole and the surface is scantily covered with soft, fine, individual hairs. The inflorescence consists of 4-10 pendulous flowers on a pedicel long. The yellowish-green flowers, rarely red, have distinctive, long, red stamens that are considerably longer than the long petals. The flowers are borne at the end of branches arising from the leaf axils or bracts. The calyces are long, cone-shaped with small, triangular lobes. The seed pod is rough with a warty surface, about long with two small horn-like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Lamprophyllum
''Leionema lamprophyllum'', commonly known as shiny phebalium, is a shrub species that is endemic to Australia. It grows up to 2 metres in height, with leaves that are 3–10 mm long and 2–4 mm wide. White flowers are produced in spring. Three subspecies are recognised: *''Leionema lamprophyllum'' (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson subsp. ''lamprophyllum'' *''Leionema lamprophyllum'' subsp. ''obovatum'' F.M.Anderson *''Leionema lamprophyllum'' subsp. ''orbiculare'' F.M.Anderson The species occurs in New South Wales, Victoria, Australia, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory. References External links * {{Taxonbar, from=Q6520073 Leionema, lamprophyllum Sapindales of Australia Flora of the Australian Capital Territory Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (state) Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Rotundifolium
''Leionema rotundifolium'', is a dense shrub with needle-shaped stems and pale lemon to white terminal flowers. It is found in New South Wales and Queensland. Description ''Leionema rotundifolium'' is a bushy, thick shrub to high with terete stems and finely covered in star-shaped hairs. The smooth leaves are flat, leathery and more or less in an overlapping formation along the stems, broadly egg-shaped to almost circular, long, wide, edges smooth or minutely irregular near the rounded apex. The inflorescence is a rounded cluster of flowers on a short stem in the uppermost leaves or bracts. The calyx is shaped like an inverted cone, smooth and broadly triangular shaped. The white to lemon petals are long and dotted with glands. The dry, spreading fruit is long with a short beak. Flowering occurs from late winter to spring. Taxonomy This species was first formally described by Allan Cunningham and he gave it the name ''Eriostemon rotundifolius'' but did not publish the des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Ralstonii
''Leionema ralstonii'', is a small shrub with angular, smooth branchlets and pale green flowers in winter. It is restricted to the south coast of New South Wales. Description ''Leionema ralstonii'' is a small shrub to about high with smooth, substantially angular branchlets. The smooth leaves are sessile, about long, wide, smooth edges rolled under when dry, papery texture, with a slight notch at the rounded apex. The inflorescence is a tight cluster of 4-7 flowers at the end of branches. The smooth leaves are more or less lance shaped, broader at the apex, long, wide, gradually narrowing at the base, margins rolled under or upward when dry. The inflorescence is a compact cyme of 4-7 flowers at the end of branches, the stalk bent downwards, individual fleshy flower stalks are about long. The hemispherical calyx is smooth and fleshy with triangular shaped lobes. The flower petals are pale green, about long and stamens more than double the length of the petals. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leionema Dentatum
''Leionema dentatum'', commonly known as toothed phebalium is a species of large shrub or small tree that is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It has variable leaves, slender branches and clusters of cream-yellow flowers in spring. Description ''Leionema dentatum'' is a shrub or small tree to high with slender more or less needle-shaped stems. The leaves are variable and may be narrowly oblong or elliptic, lance shaped or linear, long, wide, smooth, apex squared or blunt with two teeth, margins rolled under or upward more or less toothed, underside white with star shaped hairs and a raised midrib. The inflorescence consists of about 10 flowers on an angled peduncle long, individual flowers on a slender pedicel about long. The calyx lobes are a wide-triangular shape and fleshy. The light yellow to white petals about long, smooth and dotted with glands. The fruit sit upright on the stem are about long and end in a small distinct point. Taxonomy and naming ''Lei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
