Sannantha bidwillii
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image = Sannantha bidwillii Fagg.jpg
|image_caption = In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
|genus = Sannantha
|species = bidwillii
|authority = (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson{{cite web |title=Sannantha bidwillii |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/206986|website=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=24 April 2023}}
|synonyms =
- Babingtonia bidwillii A.R.Bean
- Baeckea virgata var. parvula F.M.Bailey nom. inval. nom. nud.
- Babingtonia sp. (Yurol A.R.Bean 6803)
}}
Sannantha bidwillii is a species in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to coastal Queensland in Australia. It is a shrub or tree with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of 3 white flowers.
Description
Sannantha bidwillii is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|5|m}} and has scaly to fibrous bark. It leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, {{cvt|4.5–7.0|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.3–2.0|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.6–1.0|mm}} long. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils, usually in clusters of 3 on a peduncle {{cvt|4.5–8|mm}} long, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|3.0–4.5|mm}} long with 2 linear bracts at the base, but that fall off as the flowers develop. The floral tube is {{cvt|1.5–2.0|mm}} long, the sepal lobes {{cvt|0.4–2|mm}} long. The petals are {{cvt|2.2–2.6|mm}} long and {{cvt|2.0–2.5|mm}} wide and there are usually 7 to 10 stamens. Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a hemispherical, capsule {{cvt|2.6–3.5|mm}} in diameter.{{cite web |title=Baeckea virgata = Sannantha spp. |url=https://www.jcu.edu.au/discover-nature-at-jcu/plants/plants-by-scientific-name2/baeckea-virgata-sannantha-spp. |publisher=James Cook University |access-date=23 April 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Bean |first1=Anthony R. |title=A revision of the Babingtonia virgata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) F.Muell. complex (Myrtaceae ) in Australia. |journal=Austrobaileya |date=1999 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=161–162 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41739138 |access-date=23 April 2023}}
Taxonomy
This species was by first formally described in 1999 Anthony Bean who gave it the name Babingtonia virgata in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens he collected in the Yurol State Forest near Cooroy in 1993.{{cite web|title=Babingtonia bidwillii|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/558611 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=22 April 2023}} In 2007, Peter Gordon Wilson changed the name to Sannantha bidwillii in Australian Systematic Botany.{{cite web|title=Sannantha bidwillii|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/617179 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=22 April 2023}} The specific epithet (bidwillii) honours John Carne Bidwill, who collected the first known specimen of this species.
Distribution and habitat
Sannantha bidwillii grows in eucalypt forest in coastal lowland between Shoalwater Bay and Brisbane in Queensland.
Conservation status
This species is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science.{{cite web |title=Species profile—Sannantha bidwillii |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=31853 |publisher=Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science |access-date=23 April 2023}}
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Category:Myrtales of Australia