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Wendlandia basistaminea

Wendlandia basistaminea
Photo: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, CC0
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Wendlandia basistaminea is a member of the Rubiaceae family, endemic to Queensland. It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1892.

Mueller described the plant from a specimen collected by Stephen Johnson on the Russell River in Queensland. Branchlets appressedly almost sericiously pubescent; leaves on short petioles or almost sessile, chartaceous, mostly ovate-lanceolar, short-acuminate, at the base rounded-blunt, above nearly glabrous, beneath particularly along the costules and venules beset with very short hairlets; stipules almost deltoid, incised at the apex, soon deciduous; panicles with cymous or fasciculate flowers, appressedly short-pubescent; lobes of the calyx deltoid-semilanceolar; corolla-tube about thrice as long as the calyx-lobes, sparingly puberulous inside, slightly constricted at the upper end; corolla-lobes nearly glabrous, not much shorter than the tube; s…

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wendlandia basistaminea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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