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Crowea exalata F.Muell.
Family Rutaceae
Crowea exalata F.Muell. APNI*

Description: Shrub to 1 m high; branchlets slender, scarcely angled.

Leaves oblong-cuneate to spathulate, 1.5–5 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, apex rounded to obtuse and apiculate, base gradually attenuate, glabrous.

Flowers terminal or in upper axils on a short axillary shoot with few leaves; pedicel 2–4 mm long, fleshy towards the apex. Sepals 2–2.5 mm long, slightly hairy to glabrous, finely ciliate. Petals narrow- to broad-ovate, 5–12 mm long, pink to pale mauve (sometimes green in fruit). Stamens slightly imbricate, the sterile apices eventually spreading.

Cocci ± erect, c. 7 mm long.


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Flowering: sporadically throughout year.

Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in dry sclerophyll forest on sandy soils, south from Deepwater.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic.
AVH map***

The subspecies can be difficult toseparate between Sydney and Eden

Text by M. F. Porteners & P. H. Weston
Taxon concept:

 Key to the subspecies 
1Leaves narrow-oblong to narrow-elliptic, with length:breadth ratio of >3:1.2
Leaves obcordate, length:breadth ratio of mostly <2:1. Leaves 9–11 mm long, 4–5.5 mm wide. Petals 7–9 mm long; pedicels c. 3.5 mm long.subsp. obcordata
2Petals 5–8.5 mm long; pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm long; leaves narrow-oblong to oblanceolate, 13–50 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide; leaf apex obtuse to acute.subsp. exalata
Petals 7.5–14 mm long; pedicels 1.5–4 mm long; leaves narrow-elliptic or rarely narrow-oblong to oblanceolate, 20–75 mm long, 3–9.5 mm wide; leaf apex mucronate to apiculate, retuse in some southern populations.
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subsp. magnifolia

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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