Siegfriedia

Siegfriedia
Scientific classification
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Tracheophytes
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Angiosperms
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Eudicots
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Rosids
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Rosales
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Rhamnaceae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Siegfriedia C.A.Gardner
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Binomial name
Siegfriedia darwinioides C.A.Gardner[1]

Siegfriedia is a monotypic genus flowering plant belonging to the family Rhamnaceae. It is a small plant with smooth leaves leaves and bell-shaped flowers. The only species is Siegfriedia darwinioides, it is endemic to Western Australia.

Siegfriedia darwinioides is a multi-stemmed, upright, spreading shrub 0.2–1 m (7.9 in–3 ft 3.4 in) high with yellowish-cream to orange pendulous flowers. The branches are smooth, bark purple-brown, smaller branches have a whitish down. The leaves are arranged opposite, oblong-shaped, apex pointed, base almost heart-shaped, margins rolled, upper surface veined and smooth, lower surface densely covered in short matted hairs. Flowering occurs from April to August and the fruit is a schizocarp with three segments.^[2][3][4]

Siegfriedia darwinioides was first formally described in 1933 by C.A.Gardner and the description was published in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia.^[2][5]The specific epithet (darwinioides) means like Darwinia.^[6]

Siegfriedia darwinioides grows from the Stirling Ranges to Esperance on sandy, clay or loam soils.^[3]

Wikidata ☰ Q10371385 entry

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