Cryptandra longistaminea
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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|image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
|genus = Cryptandra
|species = longistaminea
|authority = F.Muell.{{cite web |title=Cryptandra longistaminea |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/87666 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=1 January 2023}}
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Cryptandra longistaminea is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with many branches, egg-shaped or elliptic to linear leaves, and clusters of white, tube-shaped flowers.
Description
Cryptandra longistaminea is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|50–80|cm}} and has many branchlets {{cvt|10–30|cm}} long but that are not spiny. The leaves are egg-shaped or elliptic to linear, mostly {{cvt|1.8–4|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.9–1.7|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.2-0.6|mm}} long. There are narrow triangular stipules {{cvt|0.6–1.1|mm}} long at the base of the petioles. The edges of the leaves are curved downwards, the upper surface glabrous, the lower surface densely covered with white, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are usually borne in clusters on smaller branches with brown, overlapping bracts {{cvt|1.0–1.2|mm}} long at the base. The floral tube is white to creamy-white, {{cvt|1.0–1.3|mm}} long, the lobes spreading, {{cvt|1.7–2.0|mm}} long and the petals white, protruding {{cvt|1.4–1.8|mm}} beyond the end of the floral tube, and hooded. Flowering occurs from June to September.{{cite journal |last1=Bean |first1=Anthony R. |title=New species of Cryptandra Sm. and Stenanthemum Reissek (Rhamnaceae) from northern Australia. |journal=Austrobaileya |date=2004 |volume=6 |issue=4 |page=926 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59885615#page/349/mode/1up |access-date=1 January 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=Cryptandra longistaminea |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cryptandra~longistaminea |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=1 January 2023}}
Taxonomy and naming
Cryptandra longistaminea was first formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near the Severn River.{{cite web |title=Cryptandra longistaminea |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/507907 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=1 January 2023}}{{cite book |last1=von Mueller |first1=Ferdinand |title=Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae |volume=3 |date=1862 |publisher=Victorian Government Printer |location=Melbourne |pages=64–65 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7220#page/71/mode/1up |access-date=2 January 2023}} The specific epithet (longistaminea) means "long stamens".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=243 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
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Category:Flora of New South Wales