Agonis theiformis
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|species = theiformis
|authority = Schauer{{cite web |title=Agonis theiformis |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/129558 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=15 August 2024}}
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Agonis theiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped, sometimes broadly egg-shaped leaves, and clusters of white flowers with mostly 15 to 20 stamens opposite the sepals, the fruit a spherical cluster of cup-shaped capsules.
Description
Agonis theiformis is an often spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|2-3|m}}, its branchlets sometimes zig-zagged and hairy at first, later glabrous. Its leaves are sessile, elliptic to egg-shaped or broadly so, wavy and twisted, {{cvt|6–20|mm}} long, {{cvt|4–10|mm}} wide, with a short point on the tip. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface has a prominent mid-vein and a few soft hairs. The flowers are arranged in clusters {{cvt|7–11|mm}} in diameter with broadly to very broadly egg-shaped bracts {{cvt|1.3–2.0|mm}} long and densely hairy, and similar bracteoles. The sepals are egg-shaped, {{cvt|1.0–1.5|mm}} long, the petals white and {{cvt|2.5–4|mm}} long. There are 15 to 20 stamens with 3 or 4 opposite each sepal, none opposite the petals, {{cvt|0.7–1.5|mm}} long. Flowering mainly occurs from October to December and the fruits are in clusters {{cvt|6–8|mm}} wide, the individual capsules cup-shaped to broadly top-shaped, {{cvt|3.5–4.0|mm}} wide.{{cite journal |last1=Wheeler |first1=Judith R. |last2=Marchant |first2=Neville G. |title=A revision of the Western Australian genus Agonis (Myrtaceae) and two new segregate genera Taxandria and Paragonis |journal=Nuytsia |date=2007 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=404–405 |url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/science/nuytsia/414.pdf |access-date=9 August 2024}}{{FloraBase| name = Agonis theiformis| id = 19789}}
Taxonomy
Agonis theiformis was first formally described by Johannes Conrad Schauer in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.{{cite web |title=Agonis theiformis |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/620722|publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=9 August 2024}}{{cite book |last1=Schauer |first1=Johannes C. |editor-last1=Lehmann |editor-first1=Johann G.C. |title=Plantae Preissianae |date=1844 |publisher=Sumptibus Meissneri |location=Hamburg |page=117 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9227#page/122/mode/1up |access-date=9 August 2024}} The specific epithet (theiformis) means 'Thea-shaped'.{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Alex |last2=Sharr |first2=Francis |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=323 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This species of Agonis grows in heath, shrubland and forest on a range of soil types from Northcliffe to Cape Riche and inland to the Stirling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.
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Category:Endemic flora of Southwest Australia