Species of plant in the family Proteaceae from New South Wales in Australia
Gibraltar Range waratah
Telopea aspera in the Gibraltar Range National Park.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Order:
Proteales
Family:
Proteaceae
Genus:
Telopea
Species:
T. aspera
Binomial name
Telopea aspera
Crisp & P.H.Weston[1]
T. aspera (habit)
Telopea aspera, commonly known as Gibraltar Range waratah,[2] is a plant in the family Proteaceae. It grows as a woody shrub to 3 metres (10 ft) high with leathery rough leaves and bright red flower heads known as inflorescences—each composed of hundreds of individual flowers. It is endemic to the New England region in New South Wales in Australia. It was formally described as a species by botanists Peter Weston and Mike Crisp in 1995, separated from its close relative Telopea speciosissima by its rough foliage and preference for dryer habitat. Unlike its better known relative, Telopea aspera has rarely been cultivated.
^"Telopea aspera". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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Telopeaaspera, commonly known as Gibraltar Range waratah, is a plant in the family Proteaceae. It grows as a woody shrub to 3 metres (10 ft) high with...
in Australia. No subspecies are recognised, but the closely related Telopeaaspera was only recently[when?] classified as a separate species. T. speciosissima...
(acrotonic), which is a feature of the speciosissima-aspera clade and more distant relatives. The genus Telopea contains five species: Species grow as either...
Telopeaaspera, a waratah species A microscopic pollen grain of Arabis, showing three colpi The basal eudicots are a group of 13 related families of flowering...
genus Corymbia (Myrtaceae)". Telopea. 6 (2–3): 448–449. doi:10.7751/telopea19953017. Chippendale, George M. "Eucalyptus aspera". Australian Biological Resources...
1995 in the journal Telopea, from specimens collected near Giralia in 1983. Corymbia candida has a strong resemblance to C. aspera. The specific epithet...
Government Nature Conservation Act 1992. List of Corymbia species "Corymbia aspera". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 30 January 2020. "Corymbia aureola"...
description was published in the journal Telopea. The specific epithet (asperula) is the diminutive form of the Latin word aspera meaning "rough", hence "somewhat...
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