''Hemigenia cuneifolia'' is a plant in the family

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and is

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to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with oblong leaves arranged in

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of three, and blue to mauve flowers.

Description

''Hemigenia cuneifolia'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of about . The leaves are oblong, long, wide on a petiole long and arranged in whorls of three. The

sepal A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coined b ...

s are fused to form a tube long with five lobes that are shorter than the tube. The petals are blue to mauve, about long and fused to form a tube with two lips. There are four

stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filame ...

s, the lower two more or less sterile, and the style has two branches. Flowering mainly occurs from August to April.

Taxonomy and naming

''Hemigenia cuneifolia'' was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham and the description was published in '' Flora Australiensis'' from specimens collected by William Woolls and Hermann Beckler.

Distribution and habitat

''Hemigenia cuneifolia'' grows in forest from south east Queensland to the

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area of New South Wales and as far inland as the

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15327784 cuneifolia Endemic flora of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1870 Taxa named by George Bentham