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Adenanthos velutinus Meisn.
Velvet Woollybush

Reference
A.DC., Prodr. 14:312 (1856)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.5-2.5 m high. Fl. yellow-cream-green, Jan or Aug. Black sandy clay, rocky sandy soils.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 25 July 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs or prostrate shrubs, 0.50-2.5 m high. Leaves alternate, 9-25 mm long, glabrous; lamina terete, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with glands at the leaf (or leaf lobe) apex. Inflorescences cream or yellow; innermost bracts 7-9 mm long; peduncles 2-2.5 mm long. Perianth 23-24 mm long, hairy; ovary glabrous; pistil 30-34 mm long, pollen presenter erect, style glabrous. Flowers in January or August. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cranbrook.