Correa lawrenceana var. genoensis
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| Genoa River correa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Correa |
| Species: | |
| Variety: | C. l. var. genoensis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Correa lawrenceana var. genoensis | |
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Correa lawrenceana var. genoensis, commonly known as the Genoa River correa,[2] is a variety of Correa lawrenceana and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped leaves and yellowish green flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils.
Correa lawrenceana var. genoensis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has egg-shaped leaves 24–65 mm (0.94–2.56 in) long, 7–34 mm (0.28–1.34 in) wide and more or less glabrous on the lower surface. The flowers are usually borne singly, sometimes in groups of up to seven, in leaf axils on stalks 7–25 mm (0.28–0.98 in) long with thread-like bracteoles. The calyx is urn-shaped, 9–12 mm (0.35–0.47 in) long and glabrous, and the corolla is narrow cylindrical, 17–25 mm (0.67–0.98 in) long and yellowish green. Flowering mostly occurs in spring.[3][4][5]
Taxonomy
The variety genoensis was first formally described in 1961 by Paul Wilson in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia from specimens collected by Ferdinand von Mueller on "flooded banks" of the Genoa River in 1860.[6][7]