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Sannantha crenulata
Sannantha crenulata, commonly known as fern-leaf baeckea, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of Victoria in Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped to round leaves with scalloped edges, and groups of usually 3 white flowers arranged in leaf axils.
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Description
Sannantha crenulata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). Its leaves are egg-shaped to round, 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) long and 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) wide on a petiole 0.6–0.9 mm (0.024–0.035 in) long. The edges of the leaves are minutely scalloped. The flowers are up to 8 mm (0.31 in) in diameter and arranged in leaf axils, usually in groups of 3 on a peduncle 4–10.5 mm (0.16–0.41 in) long. Each flower is on a pedicel 5.3–8.5 mm (0.21–0.33 in) long with many bracteoles at the base, but that fall off as the flowers develop. The floral tube is 1.6–1.9 mm (0.063–0.075 in) long, the sepal lobes 0.6–0.9 mm (0.024–0.035 in) long and thin. The petals are white, 3.0–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in) long and wide and there are 12 to 14 stamens. Flowering has been observed from November to March and the fruit is a hemispherical capsule 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) in diameter.
Range & habitat
Fern-leaf baeckea is only known from the lower parts of Mount Buffalo in north-eastern Victoria, where it grows on rocky streamsides in open forest and scrub.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 468994.