Phebalium elegans Paul G.wilson

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Phebalium

Characteristics

Spreading shrub to 0.9 m high. Branchlets glandular-tuberculate, silvery-lepidote. Leaves spreading, shortly petiolate, cuneate, c. 5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, recurved and glandular-undulate at margins, retuse, glandular-tuberculate when dry, medially channelled, glabrous and dark green adaxially, silvery-lepidote abaxially. Umbels 2–5-flowered; pedicels slender, 5–10 mm long, silvery-lepidote. Calyx c. 1.5 mm high including the deltate lobes 1 mm long, silvery-to reddish brown-lepidote abaxially. Petals broadly elliptic, 4–5 mm long, white, silvery-to ferruginous-lepidote abaxially. Fruit not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

Growing in well-drained soil on rocky hills. 
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Distribution

Phebalium elegans world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1003770-1
WFO ID wfo-0000470253
COL ID 4FXLP
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Synonyms

Phebalium elegans