Asterolasia correifolia

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Phylogeny & links to associated information

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Plant  information

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Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• White to cream-coloured or yellow flowers arranged in umbels of four to ten or more in leaf axils

• Each flower on a pedicel 7–20 mm long

• The petals are mostly 5.5–7.5 mm long

• The back of the petals densely covered with coarse, star-shaped, white hairs

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped or elliptical, 20–120 mm long and 11–45 mm wide 

• The lower surfaces are covered with white and pigmented, star-shaped hairs

• Petiole 5–11 mm long

Stem & branches: 

• Stems are covered with woolly, white to brown, star-shaped hairs

Roots:         

Habit:        

• An erect shrub of up to 2.5 m

Habitat:   

• Wet forests in moist gullies

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to eastern Australia

• Carnarvon National Park in Queensland

• On the North and Central Coasts, Central and Southern Highlands of NSW

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • This species was first formally described in 1825 by Adrien-Henri de Jussieu who gave it the name Phebalium correaefolium and published the description in Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris

  • In 1863, George Bentham changed the name to Asterolasia correifolia in Flora Australiensis

  • In 2019, Philippa R. Alvarez and Marco Duretto published a paper suggesting that the plants previously known as A. correifolia occurring in Queensland and those on the Northern Tablelands of NSW were different species

  • They gave those in Queensland the name Asterolasia sola and those on the Northern Tablelands A. exasperata

  • The new names have not yet been accepted by the Australian Plant Census

Sources of information:

• (2023)