Asterolasia section Muricatae Duretto & Heslewood, 2023

Duretto, Marco F., Heslewood, Margaret M. & Bayly, Michael J., 2023, Generic and infrageneric limits of Phebalium and its allies (Rutaceae: Zanthoxyloideae), Australian Systematic Botany 36 (2), pp. 107-142 : 137

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1071/SB22018
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10904220
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/865587A8-FFF2-FFAD-FF09-8C6A68D7FBF8
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Asterolasia section Muricatae Duretto & Heslewood
status	sect. nov.

Treatment

Asterolasia section Muricatae Duretto & Heslewood , sect. nov.

Type: Asterolasia muricata J.M.Black.

Differs from the typical section by flowers having two carpels (v. 5) and from section Urocarpus by flowers having yellow petals with stellate hairs with unfused rays ( v. petals white, pink, or yellow and then hairs on abaxial surface with fused rays so the hairs look like fimbriate scales).

Hairs stellate, rays unfused. Leaves revolute. Petals yellow. Carpels 2.

A monotypic section confined to South Australia.

Etymology

The sectional name is derived from the specific epithet of its type species.