''Bursaria cayzerae'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is

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to the

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of New South Wales. It is a sparsely-branched shrub with spiny branches, narrowly elliptic leaves, flowers with five

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s, spreading white petals and five stamens, and flattened fruit.

Description

''Bursaria cayzerae'' is a spiny, sparsely-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its foliage covered with woolly hairs. Its adult leaves are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils, sometimes in groups of up to five, each flower on a hairy

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long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, glabrous and free from each other. The five petals are white and spread from the base, long. The five stamens are white and free from each other, the filaments long, and the pistil is glabrous. Flowering occurs in late spring and the fruit is a flattened capsule long.

Taxonomy

''Bursaria cayzerae'' was first formally described in 2013 by Ian Telford and

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in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens collected near Grafton in 2012. The specific epithet (''cayzerae'') honours Lindy W. Cayzer for her work on the Pittosporaceae.

Distribution and habitat

This bursaria is only known from near Grafton on the North Coast of New South Wales where it grows in shrubby woodland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q65932065 cayzerae Pittosporaceae Plants described in 2013 Flora of New South Wales