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

B. euodiiformis = Acradenia euodiiformis

References

↑ Hartley, T.G. (1977). "A revision of the genus Bosistoa (Rutacaea)" (PDF). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 58: 416–436.

External links

Photograph of leaves of B. transversa (syn. B. selwynii)

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