Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia

Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia, commonly known as the pink mountain-correa,[2] is a variety of Correa lawrenceana and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with leathery, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves, and pink flowers with yellowish tips arranged singly or in groups of two or three in leaf axils.

Pink mountain-correa
Cultivated specimen in the A.C.T.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Correa
Species:
C. lawrenceana
Variety:
C. l. var. cordifolia
Trinomial name
Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia
Synonyms[1]
  • Correa lawrenciana var. cordifolia Paul G.Wilson orth.var.

Description

Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–5 m (3 ft 3 in–16 ft 5 in) and has leathery, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves 25–105 mm (0.98–4.13 in) long, 20–55 mm (0.79–2.17 in) wide and thinly felty on the lower surface. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a peduncle 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) long or in groups of two or three, each flower on a pedicel about 10 mm (0.39 in) long. The calyx is cup-shaped, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and hairy, and the corolla is cylindrical, 25–30 mm (0.98–1.18 in) long and pink with a yellowish tip, rarely all yellow. Flowering mostly occurs in spring.[3][4][5]

Taxonomy

The variety cordifolia was first formally described in 1961 by Paul Wilson in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia from specimens collected by Ernest Francis Constable on Mount Dromedary in 1953.[6][7][8]

Distribution and habitat

This variety of C. lawrenceana grows in forest, including rainforest, on the coast and nearby tablelands of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and south from Lake Conjola and Braidwood, to the far north-eastern corner of Victoria.[3][4][9]

Conservation status

This variety is listed as "vulnerable" on the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria.[2]

References
  1. "Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. "Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria - 2014" (PDF). Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria). Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  3. Duretto, Marco F. "Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  4. Porteners, Marianne F.; Weston, Peter H. "Correa lawrenceana var. cordifloia F.Muell". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  5. Wilson, Paul G.; Wilson, Annette J.G. (ed.); Bolton, P.E. (ed.). "Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 12 July 2020.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  6. "Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia". APNI. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  7. Wilson, Paul Graham (1961). "A taxonomic revision of the Genus Correa". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 85: 47–48. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  8. "Constable, Ernest Francis (1903 - 1986)". Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  9. Wilson, Paul Graham (1998). "Notes on the genus Correa (Rutaceae)". Nuytsia. 12 (1): 98–99. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
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