Pandorea nervosa
{{Short description|Species of vine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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|genus = Pandorea
|species = nervosa
|authority = (Andrews) Steenis{{cite web|title=Pandorea nervosa|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/91100|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=18 October 2021}}
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Pandorea nervosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a woody vine that grows in rainforest and has pinnate leaves with three or five leaflets, and white, tube-shaped flowers.
Description
Pandorea nervosa is a woody vine with a stem diameter up to {{cvt|30|mm}}. The leaves are pinnate with three or five leaflets about {{cvt|45-100|mm}} long and {{cvt|10–50|mm}} wide, the leaves on a petiole {{cvt|15–35|mm}} long, the end leaflet sessile or on a petiolule up to {{cvt|8|mm}} long. The flowers are borne near the ends of the stems in dense clusters on a peduncle about {{cvt|20|mm}} long, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|3–6|mm}} long. The five sepals are {{cvt|6–7.5|mm}} long and fused at the base forming a bell-shaped tube with lobes about {{cvt|2.5|mm}} long. The five petals are white and fused at the base forming a tube about {{cvt|35|mm}} long and {{cvt|15–20|mm}} in diameter with lobes about {{cvt|8|mm}} long. The fruit is a capsule about {{cvt|125|mm}} long containing winged seeds.{{cite web |author1=F.A.Zich |author2=B.P.M.Hyland |author3=T.Whiffen |author4=R.A.Kerrigan |author2-link=Bernard Hyland |year=2020 |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/pandorea_nervosa.htm |title=Pandorea nervosa |website=Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8) |publisher=Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government |access-date=18 October 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=van Steenis |first1=Cornelis G.G.J. |title=A previously undescribed Pandorea from north-east Queensland, Australia |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |date=1931 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=149–151 |doi=10.5962/p.185228 |s2cid=197553377 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8368642#page/428/mode/1up |access-date=18 October 2021|doi-access=free }}
Taxonomy
Pandorea nervosa was first formally described in 1931 by Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum from specimens collected near Boonjie on the Atherton Tableland in 1929.{{cite web|title=Pandorea nervosa|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/513038 |publisher=APNI|access-date=18 October 2021}} The specific epithet (nervosa) means "many veins".{{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=260 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This pandorea grows in rainforest at altitudes between {{cvt|450 and 1150|m}} in north-eastern Queensland and on Mount Elliot in central eastern Queensland.
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Category:Lamiales of Australia
Category:Plants described in 1931
Category:Taxa named by Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis