Eutaxia cuneata 

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Common name:         ...

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Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (cuneata) means "wedge-shaped", usually refers to the leaves

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are borne singly or in pairs in the leaf axils, bracteoles egg-shaped, reddish-brown, 0.6–1.3 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide

• They have smooth, margins and apex with occasional, spreading, straight hairs about 0.1 mm long, pedicels straight, sometimes curved under, and 1.5–4 mm long

• The flowers are orange-yellow, standard petal is 2–3 mm long and 7.3–9.6 mm wide, wings 1.5–2.8 mm long, keel 1.5–2.3 mm long, orange-red, straight, oblong shaped, smooth and the apex pointed

• Flowering occurs from July to October

Fruit:                         

• An elliptic shaped, 5–5.2–2 mm long, 6–2.7 mm wide, outer surface with occasional, flattened hairs about 0.2 mm long

Leaves:         

• The leaves are arranged opposite, decussate, spreading, 2–17 mm long

• The upper surface is mid green, glabrous and the lower surface smooth with a prominent mid-vein, grey-brown

• They are cuneate, apex blunt or with a hard tip

Stem & branches: 

• Glabrous, greyish brown to red brown stems

Roots:         

Habit:        

• An upright shrub densely branched or occasionally sparsely branched

• It is 0.3–1.6 m high and 0.6–1.3 m wide with glabrous, greyish brown to red brown stems

Habitat:   

• Heath, woodland in a variety of soils 

Distribution:                  

• Near the south coast of Western Australia from Cheyne Beach to Ravensthorpe

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy 

  • Eutaxia cuneata was first formally described in 1844 and the description was published in Plantae Preissianae

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutaxia_cuneata (2023)