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Adenanthos ileticos E.C.Nelson
Club-leaf Adenanthos

Reference
Brunonia 1:384-356 (1978)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Diffuse, lignotuberous shrub, 0.7-2(-3) m high. Fl. pink & cream/yellow, Mar or Jul to Oct or Dec. White, yellow or brown sand.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 25 July 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.70-3 m high. Leaves alternate, 6-15 mm long, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, once divided, tripartitely divided or divided only at the apex, shallowly divided or deeply divided, with glands at the leaf (or leaf lobe) apex. Inflorescences red or pink; innermost bracts 5-6 mm long; peduncles 3-4 mm long. Perianth 19-23 mm long, hairy; ovary hairy; pistil 25-29 mm long, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Flowers in March, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Esperance.