''Triplarina paludosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle

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Myrtaceae Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava, acca (feijoa), allspice, and eucalyptus are some notable members of this group. All speci ...

and is

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to the Blackdown Tableland in Queensland. It is a shrub with lance-shaped to linear leaves, flowers with five

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s, five white petals and fifteen to eighteen

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Description

''Triplarina paludosa'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a fibrous bark. The leaves are lance-shaped to linear, long and wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in pairs on a peduncle long. Each flower is in diameter with

bract 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 ...

s about long. The sepal lobes are about more or less round, about long and wide, the petals white, long. There are fifteen to eighteen stamens on filaments about long. Flowering has been recorded in November and the fruit is a hemispherical capsule about long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Triplarina paludosa'' was first formally described by

Anthony Bean Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants. Care ...

in 1995 and the description was published in the journal ''

Austrobaileya ''Austrobaileya'' is the sole genus consisting of a single species that constitutes the entire flowering plant family Austrobaileyaceae. The species ''Austrobaileya scandens'' grows naturally only in the Wet Tropics rainforests of northeast ...

'' from specimens he collected near Horseshoe Lookout on the Blackdown Tableland in 1993. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''paludosa'') means "marshy", referring to the species' habitat preference.

Distribution and habitat

This triplarina is endemic to the Blackdown Tableland where it grows near creeks and seepage areas in open forest and woodland.

Conservation status

''Triplarina paludosa'' is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government ''

Nature Conservation Act 1992 The ''Nature Conservation Act 1992'' is an act of the Parliament of Queensland, Australia, that, together with subordinate legislation, provides for the legislative protection of Queensland's threatened biota. As originally published, it prov ...

''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15389367 paludosa Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1995 Taxa named by Anthony Bean