- Bauera rubioides
Taxobox
name = "Bauera rubioides"
image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Bauera rubioides"
regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo =Oxalidales
familia =Cunoniaceae
genus = "Bauera "
species = "Bauera rubioides"
species_authority = Andrews"Bauera rubioides" is a shrubby, flowering plant found in the eastern states of
Australia . It has also been referred to as Madder-Leaved Bauera, a comparison to another genus which is commonly namedMadder .Description
Rambling shrub to 2 metres. Branches; opposite, rigid and many. The leaflets on the species are acute to broadly so, having 4 - 10 teeth on a serrated margin, 5 - 15 mm long and 2 -3 mm wide.Flowers on pedicels, erect, but drooping to the ends. Sepals are 6 - 8, around 4 mm, and also toothed. For the flower's most notable aspect, Sims gave in 1804;
... "Corolla", rose-coloured, eight petaled, but one is deficient; "Petals" lanceolate,concave, patent, quite entire. "Filaments" many, shorter than petals, attached to the inside of the calyx, not to the receptacle,... "Anthers" yellow, roundish. "Germen" roundish, somewhat flat-tened, emarginate. "Styles" two, filiform, divergent. "Stigmas"acute. He also notes the lack of scent. The petals may be white, the numerous stamens are creamy white. The name, "rubioides", was given for a resemblance to "Rubia "; Sims notes ...Thetrivial name is derived from the resemblance which it bears,especially in its young state, to a
Flowering is, at least lightly, throughout the year, most heavily in spring and summer.Rubia , not aRubus , asMr. Andrews, with his usual accuracy, would have it. Flowersthrough the greatest part of the Summer.Curtis's Botanical Magazine Vol 19. p715Distribution
Occurs in wet, shaded areas of New South wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and Queensland.
Cultivation
Produced commercially as a species for the garden. An early export to
England , the plant appears to have been grown there since 1793. [cite web | url = http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=159560-3 | title = Cunoniaceae "Bauera rubioides" Andrews | accessdate = 2007-09-03 | author = | year = 2005 | work = Plant Names | publisher =International Plant Names Index | quote = ... a native of Port Jackson, New Holland, was first raised at the seat of the Hon. the Marchioness of Rockingham, Hillingdon, Middlesex, in the year 1793; and, from a plant, in the conservatory ... our drawing was made, at the Nursery, Hammersmith. ] [ Curtis Bot. Mag. 715. Our Drawing was taken at Messrs. Grimwood and Wykes's. Kensington, where, we are informed, it was "first raised" in thiscountry. It may be increased by cuttings. ["emph."] ]References
* *Adapted from
Curtis's Botanical Magazine , Volume 19 p. 715
* IPNI: Remarks: Stafleu & Cowan, Tax. Lit. ed. 2, 1 (1976) 51 give the author as "probably ... John Kennedy", but as there is no such indication in the work itself, Andrews has been accepted here as the author. Base name for Bauera rubiifoliaSalisb.
* Plantnet, National Herbarium of New South Wales - [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bauera~rubioides "Bauera rubioides"]
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