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Philotheca eremicola Paul G.Wilson

Reference
Nuytsia 12(2):251 (1998)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, ca 0.4 m high, leaves congested, narrowly fusiform, ca 2.5 mm long, glabrous, glossy; sepals with brown glands. Red skeletal laterite. Rocky slopes in shrubland.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 3 October 1997

Scientific Description

Shrub. Leaves Stipular excrescences absent. Inflorescences flowers terminal, solitary. Distribution Botanical Province Eremaean, IBRA Bioregion Gibson Desert. Conservation Code Priority One (P1).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Gibson Desert.
IBRA Subregions
Lateritic Plain.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ngaanyatjarraku.