Bosistoa
Bosistoa | |
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Bosistoa transversa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Family: | Rutaceae |
Subfamily: | Rutoideae |
Genus: | Bosistoa Bentham, 1873 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Pagetia F. Müller, 1866, non Walcott, 1916 (Trilobita)[1] |
Bosistoa is a genus of Australian plants with 6 species in the family Rutaceae. Most of them are endangered due to forest destruction and encroachment by weeds. They are known colloquially as bonewoods or satinhearts.
Species
- Bosistoa brassii – Brass's bonewood
- Bosistoa floydii – five-leaved bonewood (near threatened)
- Bosistoa medicinalis (syn. B. monostylis) – Eumundi bonewood – medicine bonewood
- Bosistoa pentacocca – ferny-leaf bosistoa or native almond
- Bosistoa transversa (syn. B. selwynii) – three-leaved bosistoa or yellow satinheart (vulnerable)
They occur in New South Wales and Queensland.
Species previously assigned to Bosistoa
- B. euodiiformis = Acradenia euodiiformis
References
- ↑ Hartley, T.G. (1977). "A revision of the genus Bosistoa (Rutacaea)" (PDF). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 58: 416–436.
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