''Streptoglossa bubakii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
Asteraceae
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and grows in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is an upright, aromatic perennial herb with pink, purplish-blue or red to brown flowers.
Description
''Streptoglossa bubakii'' is a perennial with woody branches and herbaceous branches growing to high. The leaves and branches are strongly fragrant, sticky and covered with soft, weak, thin hairs to long, soft, straight hairs and thickly glandular. The stems are upright or ascending, leafy, older plants many branched and dense. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped or egg-shaped, apex sharp, blunt or rounded, narrowing gradually at the base, long, wide, margins smooth or toothed. The capitula are in clusters of 40-100 flowers on long or occasionally short branches near the top of the plant and the
involucre
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...
long. The
corolla has 5 lobes, long, glandular with occasional soft, weak, thin hairs, rarely smooth. Flowering occurs from May to October and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, long, silky with flattened hairs and ribbed.
Taxonomy and naming
''Streptoglossa bubakii'' was first described by
Karel Domin
Karel Domin (4 May 1882, Kutná Hora, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 June 1953, Prague) was a Czech botanist and politician.
After gymnasium school studies in Příbram, he studied botany at the Charles University in Prague
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as ''Pterigeron bubakii''.
In 1981
Clyde Robert Dunlop Clyde may refer to:
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changed the name to ''Streptoglossa bubakii'' and the description was published in ''
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden
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The
specific epithet
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(''bubakii'') was named after the botanist
František Bubák.
Distribution and habitat
This streptoglossa grows usually in areas near clay plains in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
References
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Asterales of Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Western Australia
Flora of Queensland
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