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Micrantheum hexandrum

Box Micrantheum at Bullen Range

Micrantheum hexandrum at Bullen Range - 22 Sep 2018
Micrantheum hexandrum at Bullen Range - 22 Sep 2018
Micrantheum hexandrum at Bullen Range - 22 Sep 2018
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Micrantheum hexandrum 30 Oct 2018 MichaelMulvaney
Leionema sp. 27 Oct 2018 BettyDonWood
Unidentified 27 Oct 2018 MichaelBedingfield

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Near the Murrumbidgee River at Red Rocks Gorge. Location approximate - GPS failed on camera.

7 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:
   27 Oct 2018
I am pretty sure this is Leionema. It is not Pheblium, which is covered in obvious scales. I cannot key it out to species and suspect it might be an unnamed species. Someone with a collecting permit needs to take a specimen to the herbarium while it is still flowering.
   28 Oct 2018
I will go back and try to find the shrub in the next week or so. It was in an area with lots of boulders so may be hard to find. The photo was taken on 22 Sept so may be past flowering by now.
   29 Oct 2018
Thanks Michael let me know how you go - I may be out that way searching for Little Eagles in the next two weeks
   29 Oct 2018
Michael M - do you agree with Betty that it may be an unnamed species?
   30 Oct 2018
Just adding Greg Baines comments to Michael M: "It looks like Rutaceae to me but it can be Philotheca because the stems and leaves aren’t warty. Betty has ruled out Phebalium and the petals are the wrong colour for Crowea which seems to leave Leionema. Is doesn’t look like any of the Leionema in NSW flora so maybe it is undescribed?"
   31 Oct 2018
Dave Albrecht of the CSIRO Herbarium identified this as Box Micrantheum, which is a new one for me. The atlas of Living Australia has about 40 records of this plant in the Act, where it is near its inland limit. There is a 1955 collection by Moore from about the same location at this record
BettyDonWood wrote:
   31 Oct 2018
If you look carefully at the leaves in photo 1, you can see that the leaves are in threes, typical of this species. Plantnet states that male flowers have 6 or 9 segments. The flowers in the photos have 6 segments, three large and 3 small, There are no female flowers in the photos. I can see these details now, but did not pick them up on the first go.

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