Wendlandia basistaminea

Wendlandia basistaminea is a member of the Rubiaceae family, endemic to Queensland.[3] It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1892.[3][4]

Wendlandia basistaminea
Specimen (Naturalis Biodiversity Center L.2959744) collected at Russell River, QLD[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Wendlandia
Species:
W. basistaminea
Binomial name
Wendlandia basistaminea

Mueller described the plant from a specimen collected by Stephen Johnson on the Russell River in Queensland.[4]

Branchlets appressedly almost sericiously pubescent ; leaves on short petioles or almost sessile, chartaceous, mostly ovate-lanceolar, short-acuminate, at the base rounded-blunt, above nearly glabrous, beneath particularly along the costules and venules beset with very short hairlets ; stipules almost deltoid, incised at the apex, soon deciduous; panicles with cymous or fasciculate flowers, appressedly short-pubescent ; lobes of the calyx deltoid-semilanceolar ; corolla-tube about thrice as long as the calyx-lobes, sparingly puberulous inside, slightly constricted at the upper end ; corolla-lobes nearly glabrous, not much shorter than the tube ; stamens fixed close to the base of the corolla and nearly as long as its tube, completely enclosed, as well as the style glabrous; dehiscence of fruit more readily loculicidal than septicidal; seeds minute, ovate, outside brown and reticular-rough. Leaves simply opposite, to 5 inches long, to 134 inches broad, flat, paler and often brownish beneath. Panicle terminal, inclusive.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "GBIF occurrence: Naturalis Biodiversity Center L.2959744". Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Species profile—Wendlandia basistaminea". pps.des.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Wendlandia basistaminea F.Muell. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Ferdinand von Mueller (1892). "Descriptions of new Australian plants, with occasional other annotations (Continued)". The Victorian Naturalist. 8: 177-180 [177]. ISSN 0042-5184. Wikidata Q124826895.
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