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Woollsia
Sign in to saveWoollsia pungens, commonly known as snow heath, is the sole species in the flowering plant genus Woollsia in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with egg-shaped leaves with a heart-shaped base, white to dark pink, tube-shaped flowers and small capsules containing many small seeds.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 9 inbound references to Woollsia, and connects out to Ferdinand von Mueller, plant and International Standard Book Number.
Vinony files it under Epacridoideae, Ericales of Australia and Flora of New South Wales.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyEricaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, VT
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Epacridoideae
- Image
- Wildflower Woodford Blue Mountains.jpg
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- taxon name
- Woollsia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Woollsia
- has fruit type
- capsule
- Commons category
- Woollsia
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Distribution and habitat
- Ecology
- Use in horticulture
- References
Woollsia pungens, commonly known as snow heath, is the sole species in the flowering plant genus Woollsia in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with egg-shaped leaves with a heart-shaped base, white to dark pink, tube-shaped flowers and small capsules containing many small seeds.
==Description== Woollsia pungens is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy stems. The leaves are egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole up to long, and have a rounded to heart-shaped base and a sharp point on the end. The flowers are white to dark pink, in diameter and sweetly-scented. There are hairy bracts and sepals long. The petals are joined at the base, forming a tube long with spreading lobes long. Flowering occurs in most months, and the fruit is a capsule about in diameter, containing many small seeds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Woollsia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.