Bosistoa

Bosistoa
Bosistoa transversa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Rutoideae
Genus: Bosistoa
Bentham, 1873
Species
  • B. pentacocca (F. Müller, 1866) (type) synonym Euodia pentacocca
B. pentacocca var. pentacocca
B. pentacocca var. connaricarpa (Domin, 1913)
B. pentacocca var. dryanderensis Hartley, 1977
  • B. brassii Hartley, 1977
  • B. dietrichia Domin
  • B. floydii Hartley, 1977
  • B. medicinalis (F. Müller, 1866), synonym Pagetia medicinalis
  • B. monostylis F.M. Bailey
  • B. transversa Bailey and White, 1917
Synonyms

Pagetia F. Müller, 1866, non Walcott, 1916 (Trilobita)[1]

Bosistoa is a genus of Australian plants with 6 species in the family Rutaceae. Most of them are endangered due to forest destruction and encroachment by weeds. They are known colloquially as bonewoods or satinhearts.

Species

  • Bosistoa brassii — Brass's bonewood
  • Bosistoa floydii — five-leaved bonewood (near threatened)
  • Bosistoa medicinalis (syn. B. monostylis) — Eumundi bonewood — medicine bonewood
  • Bosistoa pentacocca — ferny-leaf bosistoa or native almond
  • Bosistoa transversa (syn. B. selwynii) — three-leaved bosistoa or yellow satinheart (vulnerable)

They occur in New South Wales and Queensland.

Species previously assigned to Bosistoa

References

  1. ↑ Hartley, T.G. (1977). "A revision of the genus Bosistoa (Rutacaea)" (PDF). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 58: 416–436.
  • Photograph of leaves of B. transversa (syn. B. selwynii)
  • "Bosistoa F.Muell. ex Benth". Atlas of Living Australia.


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