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Petrophile heterophylla Lindl.
Variable-leaved Cone Bush

Reference
Sketch Veg.Swan R. 35 (1840)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Slender, non-lignotuberous shrub, 0.5-2(-3) m high. Fl. yellow/cream-white, Aug to Nov. Lateritic gravelly soils.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 1-2 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 50-150 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, once divided or twice or more divided, pinnately divided or tripartitely divided, entire or divided to the midrib. Inflorescences not viscid, white, cream or yellow. Perianth 10-14 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 11.5-15 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, glabrous, 3-5 mm long, the brush 1-2 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 18-25 mm long. Flowers in August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Brookton, Chittering, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dandaragan, Dumbleyung, Gingin, Goomalling, Katanning, Kulin, Lake Grace, Mundaring, Narrogin, Northam, Pingelly, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Swan, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, York.