View source for Correa lawrenceana var. cordifolia

{{Short description|Variety of flowering plant}}
{{Infraspeciesbox
|name = Pink mountain-correa
|image = Correa lawrenceana cordifolia.jpg
|image_caption = Cultivated specimen in the [[Australian Capital Territory|A.C.T.]]
|genus = Correa
|species = lawrenceana
|varietas = cordifolia
|authority = [[Paul G.Wilson]]<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Correa lawrenceana'' var. ''cordifolia''|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/80600|publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate= 12 July 2020}}</ref>
|synonyms_ref = <ref name="APC" />
|synonyms = * ''Correa lawrenciana'' var. ''cordifolia'' <small>Paul G.Wilson [[orth.var.]]</small>
}}
'''''Correa lawrenceana'' var. ''cordifolia''''', commonly known as the '''pink mountain-correa''',<ref name=list>{{cite web|title=Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria - 2014|publisher=Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria)|url=https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/50448/Advisory-List-of-Rare-or-Threatened-Plants-in-Victoria-2014.pdf|accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref> is a variety of ''[[Correa lawrenceana]]'' and is [[Endemism|endemic]] to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with leathery, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves, and pink flowers with yellowish tips arranged singly or in groups of two or three in leaf [[axil]]s.
==Description==
''Correa lawrenceana'' var. ''cordifolia'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|1–5|m}} and has leathery, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves {{cvt|25–105|mm}} long, {{cvt|20–55|mm}} wide and thinly felty on the lower surface. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a [[Peduncle (botany)|peduncle]] {{cvt|1–5|mm}} long or in groups of two or three, each flower on a [[Pedicel (botany)|pedicel]] about {{cvt|10|mm}} long. The [[Calyx (botany)|calyx]] is cup-shaped, {{cvt|4–5|mm}} long and hairy, and the [[Corolla (botany)|corolla]] is cylindrical, {{cvt|25–30|mm}} long and pink with a yellowish tip, rarely all yellow. Flowering mostly occurs in spring.<ref name="RBGV">{{cite web |last1=Duretto |first1=Marco F. |title=''Correa lawrenceana'' var. ''cordifolia'' |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/8a25bf27-1ee5-4902-8e11-251e2ef203ab |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="RBGS">{{cite web |last1=Porteners |first1=Marianne F. |last2=Weston |first2=Peter H. |title=''Correa lawrenceana'' var. ''cordifloia'' F.Muell.|url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Correa~lawrenceana+var.~cordifolia |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="FoA">{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |editor1=Annette J.G. Wilson |editor2=P.E. Bolton |title=''Correa lawrenceana'' var. ''cordifolia''|url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Correa%20lawrenceana%20var.%20cordifolia |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref>
==Taxonomy==
The variety ''cordifolia'' was first formally described in 1961 by [[Paul G. Wilson|Paul Wilson]] in ''[[Royal Society of South Australia|Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia]]'' from specimens collected by Ernest Francis Constable on [[Mount Gulaga|Mount Dromedary]] in 1953.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Correa lawrenceana'' var. ''cordifolia''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/496584 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="Wilson">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul Graham |title=A taxonomic revision of the Genus Correa. |journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia |date=1961 |volume=85 |pages=47–48 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127586#page/59/mode/1up |accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="ANBG">{{cite web |title=Constable, Ernest Francis (1903 - 1986) |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/constable-ernest.html |publisher=Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria Australian National Herbarium |accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat==
This variety of ''C. lawrenceana'' grows in forest, including rainforest, on the coast and nearby tablelands of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and south from [[Lake Conjola]] and [[Braidwood, New South Wales|Braidwood]], to the far north-eastern corner of Victoria.<ref name="RBGV" /><ref name="RBGS" /><ref name="Paul G.Wilson">{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul Graham |title=Notes on the genus Correa (Rutaceae). |journal=Nuytsia |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=98–99 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224909#page/104/mode/1up |accessdate=12 July 2020}}</ref>
==Conservation status==
This variety is listed as  "vulnerable" on the Department of Sustainability and Environment's ''Advisory List of Rare Or Threatened Plants In Victoria''.<ref name="list" />
==References==
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[[Category:Correa (plant)|lawrenciana cordifolia]]
[[Category:Flora of Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Flora of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Flora of the Australian Capital Territory]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Paul Graham Wilson]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1961]]