Skip to main content

Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s flora taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not currently being reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or the census. Due to the rapidly approaching holiday season and associated agency and facility soft closures, along with the substantial work involved in data mapping, cleaning, and verification, the migration to the new collection management software is not expected to occur before 1 March 2026, when a further update will be provided. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

The notice period started at 9:45 am on Friday, 12 December 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 2 March 2026 +08:00.

Ptilotus procumbens Benl

Reference
Nuytsia 4:263-267 (1983)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading procumbent annual, herb, ca 0.1 m high. Fl. pink-white, Nov. Red clay.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 9 May 1996

Scientific Description

Perennial herbs or annuals, stems several, more or less prostrate, glabrescent, with nodose hairs. Leaves present, 9-65 mm long, 2-8 mm wide, glabrescent, with nodose hairs; basal rosette present; cauline leaves alternate. Spikes pink, ovoid or cylindrical, clustered, with densely arranged flowers. Bracts (3.5-)3.8-4.3 mm long, coloured, hairy, awned or mucronate, with an obscure midrib. Bracteoles (3.7-)3.8-4.2 mm long, colourless, hairy, awned or mucronate, with an obscure midrib. Outer tepals 4-4.5(-5) mm long, not entire. Inner tepals 3.8-4(-4.5) mm long, with a basal tuft of hairs on inner face. Style 0.4 mm long, curved or straight, obliquely fixed to ovary. Seeds 1-1.2 mm long, dull, brown. Distribution: Eremaean Botanical Region; IBRA regions: Coolgardie, Murchison.

R. Davis, 30 April 2019

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Murchison.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coolgardie, Cue, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Mount Magnet, Sandstone.