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Bosistoa

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Subfamily
  
Rutoideae

Order
  
Sapindales

Family
  
Rutaceae

Rank
  
Genus

Bosistoa

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Bosistoa is a genus of Australian plants with 6 species in the family Rutaceae. Most of them are endangered due to forest destruction and encroachment by weeds. They are known colloquially as bonewoods or satinhearts.

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Species

  • Bosistoa brassii – Brass's bonewood
  • Bosistoa floydii – five-leaved bonewood (near threatened)
  • Bosistoa medicinalis (syn. B. monostylis) – Eumundi bonewood – medicine bonewood
  • Bosistoa pentacocca – ferny-leaf bosistoa or native almond
  • Bosistoa transversa (syn. B. selwynii) – three-leaved bosistoa or yellow satinheart (vulnerable)

    • They occur in New South Wales and Queensland.

    Species previously assigned to Bosistoa

  • B. euodiiformis = Acradenia euodiiformis

    • References

    Bosistoa Wikipedia
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