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Lambertia orbifolia C.A.Gardner subsp. orbifolia
Round-leaf Honeysuckle

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

Very open, spindly, non-lignotuberous shrub, to 3.5 m high, bark smooth, grey-brown. Fl. red-orange, May or Aug or Nov to Dec or Jan to Feb. Shallow grey or light brown sand, grey sandy loams over laterite, gravel. Gently undulating plains, low slopes, low ridges, along roadsides.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 24 May 2003

Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves whorled, 10-30 mm long, 12-25 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle, entire, the margins flat; apex obtuse or acute, 0-1 mm long. Inflorescences red; innermost bracts 10-12 mm long. Perianth 45-55 mm long, hairy; pistil 48-55 mm long, style glabrous. Flowers in January, February, May, August, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) 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)
Albany, Plantagenet.