Guichenotia macrantha

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Guichenotia macrantha - Wikipedia

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Large-flowered guichenotia

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Guichenotia
Species:	G. macrantha
Binomial name
*Guichenotia macrantha* Turcz.^[1]

Guichenotia macrantha, commonly known as large-flowered guichenotia,^[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is a shrub with grey-green leaves, mauve flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.^[2]

Description

Guichenotia macrantha is an open, upright, or sometimes a straggling small or tall shrub to 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) high, 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in) wide with new growth covered in star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to oblong shaped, upper surface grey-green, 20–95 mm (0.79–3.74 in) long, 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in) wide, margins rolled under, lower surface yellowish-green, wrinkled, thickly hairy, rounded apex on a petiole 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long. The calyx lobes are mauve, pink-purple, sometimes white, each lobe with three distinct ribs, 1.5–2.5 cm (0.59–0.98 in) in diameter, divided to halfway, petals deep red, small, pedicel 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) long and peduncles 18–50 mm (0.71–1.97 in) long. The bracts are leaf-like, oval-shaped, 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) long, 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide and borne at the base of each pedicel. Flowering occurs from May to September and the fruit is a woody, elliptic-shaped capsule.^[3]^[4]

Taxonomy and naming

Guichenotia macrantha was first formally described in 1846 by Russian botanist Nikolai Turczaninow and the description was published in Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.^[5]^[6] The specific epithet (macrantha) means "large flowered".^[7]

Distribution and habitat

Large-flowered guichenotia grows on a variety of soils including clay sands, sands, gravel and granite from the Murchison River to Merredin.

References

^ "Guichenotia macrantha". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Guichenotia macrantha". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
^ Paczkowska, Grazyna. "Guichenotia macrantha". Florabase-the Western Australian Flora. Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^ Blake, Trevor (2021). Lantern Bushes of Australia;Thomasias & Allied Genera. Victoria: APS Keilor Plains Inc. p. 232. ISBN 9780646839301.
^ "Guichenotia macrantha". APNI. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
^ Turczaninow, Nicolai Stepanovich (1846). "Guichenotia macrantha". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 19 (2): 500. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 253. ISBN 9780958034180.

Taxon identifiers
Guichenotia macrantha	Wikidata: Q13916791 Wikispecies: Guichenotia macrantha APNI: 56228 CoL: 3HKNX EoL: 5421332 FloraBase: 5012 GBIF: 8092097 GRIN: 470361 iNaturalist: 545383 IPNI: 823400-1 NCBI: 2895334 Open Tree of Life: 6115495 Plant List: kew-2834835 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:823400-1 Tropicos: 50263263 WFO: wfo-0000711715

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