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Petrophile teretifolia R.Br.

Reference
Trans.Linn.Soc.London 10:67 (1810)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or spreading shrub, 0.1-1(-2) m high. Fl. pink & other/blue-purple-pink, Sep to Dec or Jan. White, grey or brown sand, laterite, sandy clay.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 August 1995
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-2 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 40-200 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire, straight or curved, smooth, apex acute, 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescences not viscid, white or pink. Perianth 17-25 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 17-25 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, 5.5-6.3 mm long, the brush 4.2-4.5 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 15-25 mm long. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Eucla, WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Cranbrook, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe.