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Philotheca langei Mollemans

Reference
Nuytsia 9:98-101 (1993)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, to 1.2 m high. Fl. white, Aug to Oct. Sand. Near flat granite or granite boulders.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 August 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets verrucose (warty), +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple, 4-5 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, terete, verrucose (warty), glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers terminal. solitary; pedicels 3-4 mm long; calyx present, 1-1.2 mm long, verrucose (warty), glabrous; corolla white or cream, petals five, 4-6 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, hairy on the margins only; stamens twice as many as petals, 3-3.5 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs), with an appendage. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt IBRA region(s). Conservation Code: Priority One (P1).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 14 November 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt.
IBRA Subregions
Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Westonia.