Acradenia

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids > Malvids >  Sapindales > Rutaceae  > Acradenia 

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Plant  information

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Conservation status:  ...

Etymology:   

• The botanical name is derived from the Greek acron (tip) and adenos (gland) 

Flowers:                  

• Flowers that have five sepals, five petals and usually ten stamens of unequal lengths

• The flowers are arranged in panicles in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets

• The flowers are bisexual usually with five (rarely six) sepals and petals

• The sepals are 1–1.5 mm long, joined at the base and remain attached to the fruit

• The petals overlap at the base and there are twice as many stamens as petals, usually alternating in length

• There are usually five carpels in each ovary and two ovules in each locule

Fruit:                         

• The fruit has up to five follicles joined at the base

• Each follicle with a single, smooth brown seed about 5 mm long

Leaves:         

•  Trifoliate and arranged in opposite pairs 

• Lack domatia

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Evergreen trees, sometimes shrubs

Habitat:   

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Australia

Species:                     

• World:           2

• Australia:     2

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Acradenia is a genus of two species of tree or shrub in the family Rutaceae

  • The genus Acradenia was first formally described in 1853 by Richard Kippist in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London and the first species described was A. frankliniae

  • The closest relative to Acradenia is Crossosperma from New Caledonia

• Species

  • Acradenia euodiiformis  - yellow satinheart, bonewood (NSW, Qld)

  • Acradenia frankliniae - whitey wood, wirewood (Tas)

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acradenia (Jan 2024)