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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Bosistoa transversa Coffs.jpg
|image_caption = ''[[Bosistoa transversa]]''
|taxon = Bosistoa
|authority = [[F.Muell.]] ex [[Benth.]]<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Bosistoa'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/61882|publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref>
|synonyms_ref = <ref name="APC" />
|synonyms = ''Pagetia'' F.Muell.
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text.
}}

'''''Bosistoa''''' is a genus of four species of tree in the family [[Rutaceae]] [[Endemism|endemic]] to eastern Australia. They have simple or compound leaves arranged in opposite pairs and [[Plant reproductive morphology#Bisexual|bisexual]] flowers arranged in [[panicle]]s, each flower with five [[sepals]], five white [[petal]]s and ten [[stamen]]s.

==Description==
Plants in the genus ''Bosistoa'' are trees with simple or compound leaves arranged in opposite pairs and lack [[Domatium|domatia]]. The flowers are bisexual, usually with five sepals fused at the base, sometimes almost for their full length, and five white petals. There are ten stamens that alternate in length. The fruit is a single or pair of [[Follicle (fruit)|follicles]] joined at the base with a woody [[Fruit_anatomy#Epicarp|exocarp]]. Each follicle contains a single smooth brown seed.<ref name="FoA">{{cite book |last1=Hartley |first1=Thomas G. |editor-last=Wilson |editor-first=Annette J.G. |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |page=48 |url=https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/fb3709f5-d0b4-4a15-94bc-17686ac6a9ae/files/flora-australia-26-meliaceae-rutaceae-zygophyllaceae.pdf |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref>

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Bosistoa'' was first formally described in 1863 by [[George Bentham]] from an unpublished description by [[Ferdinand von Mueller]] and the description was published in ''[[Flora Australiensis]]''.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Bosistoa''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/467422|publisher=APNI|accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="Benth.">{{cite book |last1=Bentham |first1=George |last2=von Mueller |first2=Ferdinand |title=Flora Australiensis |date=1863 |volume=v. 1 |publisher=Lovell Reeve & Co. |location=London |page=359 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/3669#page/417/mode/1up |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref> The name ''Bosistoa'' honours the Melbourne pharmacist, [[Joseph Bosisto]].<ref name="FoA" />

In 1977, [[Thomas Gordon Hartley|Thomas Hartley]] described seven species of ''Bosistoa'' and five varieties, but from a study of specimens collected since then, the number of accepted species has been reduced and the varieties dispensed with. The species described by Hartley but no longer accepted by the [[Australian Plant Census]] are ''B. brassii'', ''B. monostylis'' and ''B. selwynii''.<ref name="T.G.Hartley">{{cite journal |last1=Hartley |first1=Thomas G. |title=A Revision of the Genus ''Bosistoa'' (Rutaceae) |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |date=1977 |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=416–436 |doi=10.5962/p.185806 |s2cid=195441334 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41082#page/425/mode/1up |accessdate=30 June 2020|doi-access=free }}</ref> ''Bosistoa brassii'' is an accepted name in Queensland with ''B. brassii'' var. ''proserpinensis'' regarded as a [[Synonym (taxonomy)|synonym]] of ''B. medicinalis''.<ref name="APC1">{{cite web |title=''Bosistoa medicinalis'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/61947|publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="DES">{{cite web |title=Species profile - ''Bosistoa brassii'' |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=2333 |publisher=Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref>

===Species list===
*''[[Bosistoa floydii]]'' [[Thomas Gordon Hartley|T.G.Hartley]] - five-leaf bosistoa, five-leaved bonewood (N.S.W.)
*''[[Bosistoa medicinalis]]'' (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley - northern towra, Eumundi bosistoa (Qld.)
*''[[Bosistoa pentacocca]]'' (F.Muell.) [[Henri Ernest Baillon|Baill.]] - ferny-leaf bosistoa, native almond, union nut (Qld., N.S.W.)
**''Bosistoa pentacocca'' subsp. ''connaricarpa'' ([[Karel Domin|Domin]]) [[P.I.Forst.]] 
**''Bosistoa pentacocca'' (F.Muell.) Baill. subsp. ''pentacocca''
*''[[Bosistoa transversa]]'' [[J.F.Bailey]] & [[C.T.White]]

==Distribution and habitat==
Trees in the genus ''Bosistoa'' are found in rainforest, often dry rainforest and occur in near-coastal areas between tropical north Queensland and northern New South Wales.<ref name="FoA" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://rainforestinfo.org.au/spp/npws/heart.htm Photograph of leaves of ''B. transversa'' (syn. ''B. selwynii'')]
*{{cite web |title=''Bosistoa'' F.Muell. ex Benth. |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2891710}}

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[[Category:Zanthoxyloideae genera]]
[[Category:Bosistoa| ]]
[[Category:Flora of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Flora of Queensland]]

Bosistoa - Revision history

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