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September 18, 2007 : Leionema elatius subsp. beckleri

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Keywords: Rutaceae | Leionema elatius (F. Muell.) Paul G. Wilson subsp. beckleri (F. Muell.) Paul G. Wilson | Australia National Botanic Gardens (Canberra), Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Leionema elatius subsp. beckleri

Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. – Daniel

Thank you to Katy S. aka Mellifera K@Flickr of Australia for sharing another one of her photographs (original | BPotD Flickr Group Pool). Always happy to feature the occasional Australian native plant!

Native to Queensland and northeast New South Wales, tall phebalIum is a shrub of Australian rainforests and adjacent habitats. If you are familiar with Leionema, you likely could have predicted the range; all twenty or so species are endemic to eastern Australia. According to the New South Wales Flora Online, Leionema elatius subsp. beckleri has a ROTAP (Rare or Threatened Australian Plants) code of 2EC-, meaning it is a) of restricted distribution, with a range extending over less than 100km; b) endangered (at serious risk in the next one or two decades); and c) known to occur within a protected reserve (though the population size is unknown).

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at September 18, 2007 12:00 AM

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I love all the plants. to me the ones not grown in high desert are excotic plants. I love the plants sent from other countries, giving me a chance to see the plants that grow there and learn about them. I also save them in my pictures and paint them

Posted by: Elaine Chrysler at September 18, 2007 11:44 AM

Very nice. It looks like a bouquet. What fine photography. Each day I learn more and more. Thank you, Margaret-Rae

Posted by: Margaret-Rae Davis at September 18, 2007 1:58 PM

Typo correction, it should be phebalium.

Posted by: Ken at September 18, 2007 6:31 PM

Thanks Ken.

Posted by: Daniel Mosquin Author Profile Page at September 24, 2007 11:21 AM

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