Correa decumbens

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:                Spreadsing Correa

Conservation status:  unknown

Etymology:   

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Flowers:                  

• The flowers are usually arranged singly on the ends of short side shoots on pedicels 5–10 mm long

• Linear to spatula-shaped bracts 5–10 mm at the base

• The calyx is hemispherical to cup-shaped, 2–4 mm long and hairy, with eight linear lobes 3–7 mm long

• The corolla is narrow cylindrical, pink to red with four green lobes, 18–27 mm long

• The eight stamens extend well beyond the end of the corolla

• Flowering occurs between November and February as well from April to August in the species' native range

Fruit:                         

• x

Leaves:         

• Narrow oblong to narrow elliptical

• Mostly 20–50 mm long and 5–10 mm wide

• On a petiole 3–5 mm long

• The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous

• The lower surface is covered with woolly, rust-coloured hairs

Stem & branches: 

• x

Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• A prostrate to spreading shrub that typically grow to a height of 1 m 

• Its branchlets covered with reddish brown hair

Habitat:   

• On the southern Mount Lofty Ranges where it grows in forest dominated by stringybark 

• On Kangaroo Island where it grows in forest dominated by sugar gum (Eucalyptus cladocalyx)

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to South Australia

• On the southern Mount Lofty Ranges and on Kangaroo Island 

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

• Correa decumbens was first formally described in 1855 by botanist Ferdinand von Mueller

• Appeared in Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science from plants growing "on the cataracts towards Mount Lofty, and on the banks of the Onkaparinga in South Australia"