Correa reflexa
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Correa reflexa, commonly known as Common Correa or Native Fuchsia, is a shrub which is endemic to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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The species was first formally described in 1800 by botanist Jacques Labillardière
Jacques Labillardière
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French naturalist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition...
in Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse
Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse
Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse is a book , issued in 1800, that gives an account of the 1791-1793 d'Entrecasteaux expedition to Australasia. The title refers to the search for La Pérouse, who disappeared in the region in 1788, a popular, though unsuccessful, object of the mission...
based on the type from Adventure Bay
Adventure Bay
Adventure Bay is a bay on Bruny Island in southeastern Tasmania. Discovered in 1773 by Tobias Furneaux, it was named after his ship, HMS Adventure. James Cook explored the region in 1777, as did William Bligh in 1788 and 1792....
in southern Tasmania. He gave it the name Mazeutoxeron reflexum. The species was transferred to the genus Correa in 1803 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat
Étienne Pierre Ventenat
Étienne Pierre Ventenat was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat ....
in Jardin de la Malmaison.
Varieties
- C. reflexa (Labill.) Vent. var. reflexa
- C. reflexa var. angustifoliaCorrea reflexa var. angustifoliaCorrea reflexa var. angustifolia, commonly known as Grampians Correa, is a variety of Correa reflexa endemic to Victoria in Australia. It grows to 1 metre tall. Leaves are up to 30 mm long and 10 mm wide and are dark green on the upper surface, while the lower surface is covered with hairs and...
Paul G.Wilson - Grampians Correa - C. reflexa var. coriacea Paul G.Wilson
- C. reflexa var. insularis Paul G.Wilson
- C. reflexa var. lobataCorrea reflexa var. lobataCorrea reflexa var. lobata, commonly known as Powelltown Correa, is a variety of Correa reflexa endemic to Victoria in Australia. It grows to 2 metres tall...
Paul G.Wilson - Powelltown Correa - C. reflexa var. nummulariifoliaCorrea reflexa var. nummulariifoliaCorrea reflexa var. nummulariifolia is a variety of Correa reflexa endemic to Tasmania in Australia. It is a small shrub with leaves that are up to 12-26 mm long and 6-15 mm wide. The pendent flowers are tubular and green. The variety's distribution is restricted to islands of the Furneaux Group...
(Hook.f.) Paul G.Wilson - C. reflexa var. scabridula Paul G.Wilson
- C. reflexa var. speciosa (Donn ex Andrews) Paul G.Wilson
Cultivars
- C. reflexa 'Briagalong'
- C. reflexa 'Brisbane Range'
- C. reflexa 'Carpenter Rocks'
- C. reflexa 'Clearview Fairy'
- C. reflexa 'Clearview Large Red'
- C. reflexa 'Crystalline'
- C. reflexa 'Dawn Glow'
- C. reflexa 'Desert Glow'
- C. reflexa 'Dutchembegarra'
- C. reflexa 'Fat Fred'
- C. reflexa 'Icicle'
- C. reflexa 'Kangaroo Island'
- C. reflexa 'Lemon and Lime'
- C. reflexa 'Maroondah Tricolor'
- C. reflexa 'Mary's Choice'
- C. reflexa 'Maryborough'
- C. reflexa 'Mountain Giant'
- C. reflexa 'Clearview Giant'
- C. reflexa 'Mt Richmond Red'
- C. reflexa 'Narrow Neil'
- C. reflexa 'Old Gold'
- C. reflexa 'Portland Dawn Glow'
- C. reflexa 'Portland Peach'
- C. reflexa 'Portland'
- C. reflexa 'S.E. Gippsland'
- C. reflexa 'Squat Queen'
- C. reflexa 'Squat'
- C. reflexa 'Wildfire'
- C. reflexa 'Wilson's Promontory Lime and Gold'
- C. reflexa 'Lemon and Lime'
- C. reflexa 'Yanakie'