''Streptoglossa tenuiflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

. It is an upright perennial or annual herb with pink to purple flowers. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Western Australia.

Description

''Streptoglossa tenuiflora'' is an upright, annual or perennial herb to high. The leaves and branches are slightly fragrant, and covered with soft, weak, separated thin hairs or with long, soft, straight hairs and glandular. The lower leaves are oblong-lance shaped, long, wide, tapering at the base, irregularly toothed. The upper leaves oblong-lance shaped to linear, long and wide. The pink or blue-purple "flowers" are arranged in loose

corymb Corymb is a botanical term for an inflorescence with the flowers growing in such a fashion that the outermost are borne on longer pedicels than the inner, bringing all flowers up to a common level. A corymb has a flattish top with a superficial re ...

s and florets in a group of about 90. The disc floret corolla about long, 4 or 5 lobed and glandular. Flowering occurs from April to October and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, about long, ribbed and covered in silky, flattened hairs.

Taxonomy and naming

''Streptoglossa tenuiflora'' was first described in 1981 by Clyde Robert Dunlop and the description was published in ''

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''. The

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

(''tenuiflora'') means "thin flowered".

Distribution and habitat

This streptoglossa grows on clay, edges of streams and mud flats north of Carnarvon to the

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region.

References

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