Andersonia longifolia
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| Andersonia longifolia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Andersonia |
| Species: | A. longifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Andersonia longifolia | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Andersonia latiflora var. longifolia Benth. | |
Andersonia longifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a sprawling to upright shrub with pointed lance-shaped leaves and cream-coloured flowers.
Andersonia longifolia is a sprawling to upright shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–60 cm (3.9–23.6 in). Its leaves are lance-shaped with a pointed tip, 3–17 mm (0.12–0.67 in) long, 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide, more or less twisted and wavy and usually grooved. The flowers are arranged in oblong clusters, often with more than twenty flowers, with keeled bracteoles half as long as the sepals. The sepals are 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long, the petals cream-coloured, forming a tube with bearded lobes about as long as the petal tube.[2][3]
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham who gave it the name Andersonia latiflora var. longifolia in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond.[4][5] In 1962, Leslie Watson raised the variety to species status as Andersonia longifolia in the Kew Bulletin.[2][6] The specific epithet (longifolia) means 'long-leaved'.[7]