Bosistoa

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.

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]

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.


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