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Petrophile glauca Foreman

Reference
Fl.Australia 16:475 (1995)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or low growing, dense shrub, 0.3-1.2(-2) m high. Fl. yellow/cream-white, Aug to Nov. Laterite, sandy gravelly soils, sand. Lateritic ridges, sandplains.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 70-195 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, twice or more divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with (4-)7-12(-21) points or lobes; distance from base of leaf to lowest lobe 55-90 mm. Inflorescences not viscid, white, cream or yellow. Perianth 10-21 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 10-20 mm long; pollen presenter fusiform, hairy, 2-3 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 13-20 mm long. Flowers in August, September, October or November. Occurs in the Eremaean (ER) or South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Coolgardie (COO), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Corrigin, Dumbleyung, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narembeen, Narrogin, Ravensthorpe, Wagin, Wickepin, Woodanilling, York.