Asterolasia correifolia
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image = Asterolasia correifolia.jpg
|image_caption = In Australian National Botanic Gardens
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|genus = Asterolasia
|species = correifolia
|authority = (A.Juss.) Benth.{{cite web|title=Asterolasia correifolia|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/108121|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=26 June 2020}}
|synonyms =
- Actinostigma lanceolatum Turcz.
- Asterolasia correifolia (A.Juss.) Benth. var. correifolia
- Eriostemon corraeifolius F.Muell. orth. var.
- Eriostemon correifolius (A.Juss.) F.Muell.
- Phebalium correaefolium A.Juss. orth. var.
- Phebalium correifolium A.Juss.
- Phebalium ovatum A.Juss. nom. inval., nom. nud.
}}
Asterolasia correifolia is a species of erect shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has white to brown star-shaped hairs on its stems, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves densely covered with white star-shaped hairs on the lower surface, and white to cream-coloured or yellow flowers arranged in umbels of four to ten or more in leaf axils, the back of the petals densely covered with white hairs.
Description
Asterolasia correifolia is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|2–2.5|m}} with its stems covered with woolly, white to brown, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped or elliptical, {{cvt|20–120|mm}} long and {{cvt|11–45|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|5–11|mm}} long. The lower surface of the leaves are covered with white and pigmented, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in umbels of four to ten or more in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|7–20|mm}} long. The petals are white to cream-coloured or yellow, mostly {{cvt|5.5–7.5|mm}} long, densely covered with coarse, star-shaped hairs on the back.{{cite web |title=Asterolasia correifolia |author=Marco Duretto|url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Asterolasia~correifolia|publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=26 June 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=Asterolasia correifolia |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Asterolasia%20correifolia|publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra |accessdate=26 June 2020}}
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1825 by Adrien-Henri de Jussieu who gave it the name Phebalium correaefolium and published the description in Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.{{cite web|title=Phebalium correifolium|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/498072|publisher=APNI|accessdate=26 June 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=de Jussieu |first1=Adrien-Henri |title=Monographie du genre Phebalium. |journal=Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris |date=1825 |volume=2 |pages=130–131 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23524#page/142/mode/1up |accessdate=26 June 2020}} In 1863, George Bentham changed the name to Asterolasia correifolia in Flora Australiensis.{{cite web|title=Asterolasia correifolia|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/538812|publisher=APNI|accessdate=26 June 2020}}{{cite book |last1=Bentham |first1=George |last2=von Mueller |first2=Ferdinand |title=Flora Australiensis |date=1863 |publisher=Lovell Reeve & Co. |location=London |page=350 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/3669#page/408/mode/1up |accessdate=26 June 2020}}
In 2019, Philippa R. Alvarez and Marco Duretto published a paper suggesting that the plants previously known as A. correifolia occurring in Queensland and those on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales were different species. They gave those in Queensland the name Asterolasia sola and those on the Northern Tablelands A. exasperata. The new names have not yet been accepted by the Australian Plant Census.{{cite journal |last1=Alvarez |first1=Philippa R. |last2=Duretto |first2=Marco F. |title=A reassessment of Asterolasia correifolia (Rutaceae), with descriptions of the newly recognised A. exasperata and A. sola. |journal=Telopea |date=2019 |volume=21 |pages=381–389 |doi=10.7751/telopea13059|doi-access=free }}
Distribution and habitat
This species grows in wet forests in moist gullies and occurs in Carnarvon National Park in Queensland, and on the North and Central Coasts, Central and Southern Highlands of New South Wales.{{cite web |title=Asterolasia correifolia|work=Atlas of Living Australia|url=https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?q=lsid:https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2900728#tab_mapView|author=|accessdate=17 September 2020}}
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Category:Flora of New South Wales