Aggreflorum luehmannii is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has glossy green elliptic leaves, white flowers, and fruit that falls from the plant shortly after the seeds are released.
| Aggreflorum luehmannii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Aggreflorum |
| Species: | A. luehmannii
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| Binomial name | |
| Aggreflorum luehmannii | |
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Description
editAggreflorum luehmannii is a shrub or small tree and that typically grows to a height of 5 m (16 ft). It has smooth, reddish brown bark that peels in long strips. The leaves are elliptical, glossy when mature, mostly 15–40 mm (0.59–1.57 in) long and 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) wide on a very short petiole. The flowers are white, 6–12 mm (0.24–0.47 in) wide on a short pedicel and arranged on short shoots on the upper leaf axils. The floral cup is glabrous, 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long, the sepals blunt triangular 1–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long, the petals mostly 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long and the stamens 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from January to February and the fruit is a capsule 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide and that is shed soon after the seeds are released.[2]
Taxonomy and naming
editThis species was first formally described in 1900 by Frederick Manson Bailey who gave it the name Leptospermum luehmannii in his book The Queensland Flora.[3][4] In 2023, Peter Gordon Wilson transferred the species to the genus Aggreflorum as A. luehmannii in the journal Taxon.[1] The specific epithet honours J.G.Luehmann.[4]
Distribution and habitat
editThis tea-tree grows on the summit and slopes of the Glass House Mountains and in the Numinbah Valley.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Aggreflorum luehmannii". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ a b Thompson, Joy (1989). "A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae)". Telopea. 3 (3): 358–359.
- ^ "Leptospermum luehmannii". APNI. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ a b Bailey, Frederick Manson (1900). The Queensland Flora (Volume 2). Brisbane: H.J. Diddams. p. 592. Retrieved 16 April 2020.