Acronychia pauciflora
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| name = Few-flowered acronychia
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| image_caption = Acronychia pauciflora in the Australian National Botanic Gardens
| genus = Acronychia
| species = pauciflora
| authority = C.T.White{{cite web |title=Acronychia pauciflora |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/74003|publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=4 July 2020}}
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Acronychia pauciflora, commonly known as few-flowered acronychia or soft acronychia, is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has simple, egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, greenish white flowers arranged in small groups, mostly in leaf axils and fleshy, more or less spherical fruit.
Description
Acronychia pauciflora is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|10|m}} and has wrinkled or finely scaly, creamy-fawn bark. The leaves are simple, {{cvt|20–95|mm}} long and {{cvt|10–48|mm}} wide on a petiole usually {{cvt|4–14|mm}} long. The flowers are arranged in small groups {{cvt|8–12|mm}} long, mainly in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|0.5–2|mm}} long. The four sepals are about {{cvt|1|mm}} wide, the four greenish white petals {{cvt|4–6|mm}} long, and the eight stamens alternate in length. Flowering occurs from December to July and the fruit is a fleshy drupe {{cvt|7–9|mm}} long and more or less spherical.{{cite book |last1=Hartley |first1=Thomas G. |editor=Wilson, Annette J.G. |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |page=110|url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acronychia%20pauciflora |accessdate=4 July 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Acronychia_pauciflora.htm |title=Acronychia pauciflora |author1=F.A.Zich |author2=B.P.M.Hyland |author3=T.Whiffen |author4=R.A.Kerrigan |author2-link=Bernard Hyland |year=2020 |website=Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8) |publisher=Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government |access-date=2 July 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Hartley |first1=Thomas G. |title=A revision of the genus Acronychia (Rutaceae). |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |date=1974 |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=493–495 |doi=10.5962/p.324717 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90519#page/505/mode/1up |accessdate=4 July 2020|doi-access=free }}{{cite web |last1=Richards |first1=P.G. |last2=Harden |first2=Gwen J. |title=Acronychia pauciflora |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acronychia~pauciflora |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=4 July 2020}}
Taxonomy
Acronychia pauciflora was first formally described in 1946 by Cyril Tenison White in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.{{cite web|title=Acronychia pauciflora|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/486375|publisher=APNI|accessdate=4 July 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=White |first1=Cyril Tenison |title=Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 9. |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland |date=1946 |volume=57 |pages=21–22 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/195752#page/31/mode/1up |accessdate=4 July 2020}}
Distribution and habitat
This acronychia grows between Broad Sound in central eastern Queensland, the Richmond River in north-eastern New South Wales and as far inland as the Carnarvon Range. It grows in rainforest and in brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) scrub from sea level to an altitude of {{cvt|650|m}}.
Conservation status
This species is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.{{cite web |title=Species profile — Acronychia pauciflora (soft acronychia) |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=15872 |publisher=Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science |accessdate=4 July 2020}}
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Category:Flora of New South Wales