Triplarina volcanica
Triplarina volcanica is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Queensland, where it is only found in three mountainous areas. It is a shrub with elliptical to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and flowers with five sepals, five white petals and fourteen to sixteen stamens.
Description
Triplarina volcanica is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a fibrous or scaly bark. The leaves are elliptical to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are in diameter on a peduncle long with bracts long and bracteoles long. The sepal lobes are oblong, about long and wide, the petals white, long and wide. There are fourteen to sixteen stamens on filaments long. Flowering has been recorded in most months and the fruit is a hemispherical capsule about long.Taxonomy and naming
Triplarina volcanica was first formally described by Anthony Bean in 1995 and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens he collected near Mount Beerburrum in the Glass House Mountains in 1993.In the same journal, Bean described two subspecies and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Triplarina volcanica subsp. borealis A.R.Bean has leaves long and wide;Triplarina volcanica A.R.Bean subsp. volcanica has leaves long and wide.
The specific epithet refers to the rocks on which this species grows, and the epithet borealis means "northern", referring to the more northerly distribution of this subspecies.