Angophora floribunda

Angophora floribunda
	Angophora floribunda
Systematics
Order :	Myrtle-like (Myrtales)
Family :	Myrtle family (Myrtaceae)
Subfamily :	Myrtoideae
Tribe :	Eucalypteae
Genre :	Angophora
Type :	Angophora floribunda
Scientific name
	Angophora floribunda
	( Sm. ) Sweet

Angophora floribunda

Angophora floribunda is a species ofthe myrtle family (Myrtaceae). It occurs on the east coast of Australia and is called "Rough-barked Apple", "Apple Box", "Apple Tree", "Apple", "Boondah", "Gum Myrtle" or "Rusty Gum" there.

description

Appearance and leaf

Angophora floribunda grows as a tree that can reach heights of up to 30 meters. The bark remains on the entire tree, is gray or pale brown and has short fibers.

In Angophora floribunda is Heterophyllie ago. The simple leaves are always opposite to each other on the branches. The leaves on young specimens are sessile and are covered with stiff, simple hairs and bristly glandular hairs ( trichomes ). With a length of up to 9 cm and a width of about 3.5 cm, they are broad-lanceolate or narrow-elliptical. On medium-aged specimens, the leaves are straight, entire and dull green. The leaves on adult specimens are divided into petiole and leaf blade. Your petiole is 8 to 12 mm long. Their simple leaf blade is 8 to 12 cm long and 2 to 3 cm wide and lanceolate with a pointed base and a pointed upper end. The top and bottom of the leaves are colored differently. The lateral nerves are closely spaced at an obtuse angle to the main nerve. The cotyledons ( cotyledons ) are almost circular.

Inflorescence and flower

At the end of a 15 to 30 mm long, glabrous or rarely stiffly haired inflorescence stem, there are several partial inflorescences in compound inflorescences . The bare or stiffly hairy flower stalk is 4 to 9 mm long. The flower buds are 4 to 7 mm long and 5 to 7 mm in diameter, spherical or egg-shaped. The hermaphrodite flowers are creamy white. The flower cup (hypanthium) is ribbed. The four sepals are reduced to four calyx teeth on the flower cup. The four petals have a length and a width of 3 to 4 mm each.

Fruit and seeds

The stalked fruit is 7 to 10 mm long and 8 to 10 mm in diameter spherical or egg-shaped and often tapers towards the tip. The disc is flat and covered or even depressed by the edge of the flower cup. The kneecap-shaped seeds are regular and flattened, smooth and silk-matt red.

Occurrence

The main range of Angophora floribunda is along the east coast of Australia from central Queensland to southern New South Wales , as well as in the tabular country of New England . Occasionally it also occurs in north Queensland, Victoria or South Australia . Angophora floribunda is widespread and scattered locally.

Angophora floribunda thrives mainly on deep sandy soils in floodplains .

Taxonomy

It was first published in 1797 by James Edward Smith under the name ( Basionym ) Metrosideros floribunda Sm. In Transactions of the Linnean Society of London , Volume 3, p. 267. The new combination to Angophora floribunda (Sm.) Sweet was made in 1830 by the English botanist Robert Sweet in Sweet's Hortus Britannicus , 2nd edition, p. 209. Other synonyms for Angophora floribunda (Sm.) Sweet are Angophora intermedia DC. , Angophora orchophylla R.T.Baker , Acmena floribunda (Sm.) DC. , Eucalyptus florida Brooker , Angophora floribunda (Sm.) Sweet var. Floribunda , Acmena floribunda (Sm.) DC. var. floribunda and Angophora intermedia DC. var. intermedia .

The specific epithet floribunda is derived from the Latin word floribundus for floriferous.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Specimen search results: Angophora floribunda at Australia's Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria . Retrieved January 31, 2013
↑ ^a ^b APNI = Australian Plant Name Index . Center for Plant Biodiversity Research. Australian Government. Retrieved January 31, 2013
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ K. Hill: Angophora floribunda ((Sm.) Sweet) at New South Wales Flora Online . National Herbarium of NSW, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved January 31, 2013
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Angophora floribunda at EucaLink - A Web Guide to the Eucalypts . Retrieved January 31, 2013.
^ Angophora floribunda at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 31, 2013.
↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Angophora floribunda. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 31, 2013.
↑ Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Web links

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[AVH-1] Specimen search results: Angophora floribunda at Australia's Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria . Retrieved January 31, 2013

[APNI-2] APNI = Australian Plant Name Index . Center for Plant Biodiversity Research. Australian Government. Retrieved January 31, 2013

[NSWFo-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ K. Hill: Angophora floribunda ((Sm.) Sweet) at New South Wales Flora Online . National Herbarium of NSW, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved January 31, 2013

[EucaLink-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Angophora floribunda at EucaLink - A Web Guide to the Eucalypts . Retrieved January 31, 2013.

[tropicos-5] Angophora floribunda at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 31, 2013.

[WCSP-6] Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Angophora floribunda. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 31, 2013.

[Zander-7] Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .