Kingdom Plantae Family Rutaceae Rank Species | Order Sapindales Genus Crowea | |
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Similar Crowea exalata, Crowea saligna, Crowea, Eriostemon, Boronia | ||
Crowea angustifolia is a flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, which is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub growing to 3 m (10 ft) high by 1.0 m (3 ft) in diameter with white or pink flowers in spring.
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Description
Crowea angustifolia is a variable shrub growing to a height of 0.3–3.5 m (1–10 ft) high, either erect or spreading and diffuse. The leaves are narrow and linear (especially var. angustifolia) to oval with toothed edges (especially in var. platyphylla). Flowers occur singly in the axils of the leaves from September to December and are white or pink with five petals, five sepals and ten stamens in separate rings around the central ovary.
Taxonomy
Crowea angustifolia was first formally described by James Edward Smith in 1808 from a specimen collected by "Mr Menzies near King George's Sound". The specific epithet (angustifolia) is derived from the Latin words, angustus meaning "narrow" and folia meaning "leaves.
Two varieties are recognised:
Distribution and habitat
The species is endemic to the south western corner of Western Australia, in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions growing on sandy soils, gravel, granite, ridge tops, slopes and outcrops.