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Petrophile prostrata Rye & Hislop

Reference
Nuytsia 15:480-482, Fig. 2i (2005)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate shrub, to 0.3 m high, with its height being equivalent to the length of its erect leaves. Fl. cream-yellow, Aug to Nov.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 4 October 2007
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.10-0.20 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 120-300 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire, straight or curved, scabrous, apex pungent, 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescences not viscid, white or yellow. Perianth 15-24 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 16-22 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, 5.5-6.5 mm long, the brush 2.7-3.4 mm long. Cone with persistent scales. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.