Synaphea favosa
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| Synaphea favosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Synaphea |
| Species: | S. favosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Synaphea favosa | |
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Synaphea favosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with mostly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the lower end towards the base, spikes of rather openly spaced yellow flowers and egg-shaped fruit.
Synaphea favosa is a low, spreading shrub with sometimes erect stems up to 80 mm (3.1 in) long and covered with soft hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes with teeth or lobes, 50–120 mm (2.0–4.7 in) long and 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) wide on a petiole 20–100 mm (0.79–3.94 in) long, and with three main veins. The flowers are yellow and borne in rather openly-branched spikes 50–80 mm (2.0–3.1 in) long on a sometimes branched peduncle up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long. The perianth is widely open, the upper tepal 6.0–6.5 mm (0.24–0.26 in) long and 2.0–2.6 mm (0.079–0.102 in) wide, the lower tepal 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) long. The stigma is elliptic with two erect horns, 1.2–1.5 mm (0.047–0.059 in) long and 1.2–1.3 mm (0.047–0.051 in) wide. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is egg-shaped, 3.5–4.0 mm (0.14–0.16 in) long and covered with soft hairs.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Synaphea favosa was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[4][5] The specific epithet (favosa) means 'abounding in honeycomb', referring to the leaf veins.[6]