Lysiosepalum

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids > Malvales > Malvaceae > Lysiosepalum 

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Plant  information

Common name:         Lysiosepalum

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• The genus name means a "setting-free sepal", referring to the sepals, which are almost free or separated

Flowers:                  

• There are petal-like sepals alternating between broad to narrow, and tiny, scale-like petals

• Three egg-shaped or lance-shaped bracteoles are below the sepals, bracts at the base of the pedicels, the stamens are joined at the base and there are tiny staminodes

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The leaves are mostly linear to egg-shaped with 2 leaf-like stipules at the base of the petiole

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• All species of Lysiosepalum are shrubs up to 1.5 m high

Habitat:   

• Open woodland or shrubland

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to the south-west of Western Australia

• Between Yuna and Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia

Species:                     

• World:           5

• Australia:     5

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Lysiosepalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae

  • It was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae

  • The first species he described (the type species) was Lysiosepalum barryanum

• The following list of species was ccepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2022:

  • Lysiosepalum abollatum - woolly lysiosepalum

  • Lysiosepalum aromaticum 

  • Lysiosepalum hexandrum 

  • Lysiosepalum involucratum 

  • Lysiosepalum rugosum - wrinkled-leaf lysiosepalum

Sources of information:

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