Bursaria reevesii

Bursaria reevesii is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to a few places near Marlborough in Queensland.

It is an erect or sprawling shrub with spiny side-shoots, egg-shaped adult leaves with the narrower end towards the base, flowers with five white petals, and rounded fruit.

Bursaria reevesii is an erect or sprawling, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m (9.8 ft), its young side-shoots armed with spines.

[2] Bursaria reevesii was first formally described in 1999 by Lindy W. Cayzer, Michael Crisp and Ian Telford in the journal Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Paul Irwin Forster in the Port Curtis district.

[3] The specific epithet (reevesii) honours Roger D. Reeves of New Zealand, for his work on the flora of serpentinite areas.

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