Correa lawrenceana - Citizendia

Mountain Correa

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Genus:	Correa
Species:	C. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its Sapindales (pronounced /sæpɪn'deɪliz/ last two syllables just like the word dailies ''Webster's Third New International Dictionary'' p Rutaceae, commonly known as the Rue or Citrus family is a family of Plants usually placed in the order Sapindales. Correa is a Genus of mainly eastern Australian plants with distinctive bell-shaped Flowers Correa is in the family Rutaceae lawrenceana

Binomial name

Correa lawrenceana
Hook.

Synonyms

Correa ferruginea Backh. Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS ( July 6, 1785 &mdash August 12, 1865) was an English botanist. In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon.

Correa lawrenceana , also known as Mountain Correa, is a shrub or small tree which is endemic to Australia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. It grows to between 0. 6 and 9 metres in height, and has leaves with a shiny, dark-green upper surface which are 2. 5 to 10. 5 cm in length and about 1 to 7 cm wide. The flowers are produced during the spring and also sporadically throughout the year and are typically yellow-green although other colour forms are known.

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1834 by William Jackson Hooker who gave it the the name Correa lawrenciana. Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS ( July 6, 1785 &mdash August 12, 1865) was an English botanist. The name was standardised to Correa lawreneana under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature in 1998. The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature ( ICBN) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal Botanical names that are given to

There are a several different varieties which are currently recognised:

Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia Paul G. Wilson
Correa lawrenceana var. genoensis Paul G. Wilson
Correa lawrenceana var. glandulifera Paul G. Wilson
Correa lawrenceana var. grampiana Paul G. Wilson
Correa lawrenceana var. latrobeana (F. Muell. ex Hannaford) Paul G. Wilson
Correa lawrenceana Hook. var. lawrenceana
Correa lawrenceana var. macrocalyx (Blakely) Paul G. Wilson
Correa lawrenceana var. rosea Paul G. Wilson, a sub-alpine variety with pale red flowers.

Distribution

The species is found in rainforest and sclerophyll forest in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Rainforests are Forests characterized by high Rainfall with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750–2000 mm (68-78 inches Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent

References

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI): Correa lawrenceana
PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online: Correa lawrenceana
Costermans, L. (1981). Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Native Trees and Shrubs of South-eastern Australia. Australia: Rigby. ISBN 072701403x.

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