Lysiosepalum
Lysiosepalum
Lysiosepalum
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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
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