''Geleznowia'' is a

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genus of a flowering plant in the family

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. It is a small shrub with oval-shaped leaves, yellow flowers and is

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to Western Australia. Its only species is ''Geleznowia verrucosa''. Geleznowia verrucosa 02

Description

''Geleznowia verrucosa'' is a shrub to high with warty branchlets that are covered with star-shaped hairs or scales. The thick, oval-shaped leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, warty, margins flat, leaves covered in scales or star-shaped hairs. The yellow flowers are borne at the end of branchlets, outer yellow-green bracts are long, calyx long, warty, mostly smooth except for small, star-shaped hairs on the edges, petals long, overlapping and smooth. Flowering occurs in July to October.

Taxonomy and naming

''Geleznowia verrucosa'' was first formally described in 1849 by Ukrainian-Russian botanist

Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow ( ru , Николай Степанович Турчанинов, 1796 in Nikitovka, now in Krasnogvardeysky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia – 1863 in Kharkov) was a Russian botanist and plant collector who ...

and the description was published in ''Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou''. The

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(''verrucosa'') means "covered with warts".

Distribution and habitat

This species grows on sand plains and gravelly soils in south-eastern Western Australia north of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

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* {{Taxonbar, from1=Q2913288, from2=Q15391338 Flora of Western Australia Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow Zanthoxyloideae Zanthoxyloideae genera