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Philotheca brucei subsp. cinerea (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson

Reference
Nuytsia 12(2):258 (1998)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or straggling shrub, 0.4-1 m high, leaves oblong. Fl. purple-blue-pink, Jun to Aug. Sandy soils. Lateritic breakaways.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 August 1996

Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales or glabrous, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves alternate, simple, 6-12 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm wide, flat, the margins revolute, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences present. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 1-3.5 mm long; calyx present, verrucose (warty), glabrous except for a ciliate marginal fringe, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla purple or blue, petals five, 5.5-6.4 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 2-2.5 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 1-1.3 mm long, without an appendage. Flowers in June, July and August. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Gascoyne and Murchison IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Gascoyne, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Western Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Meekatharra, Murchison.