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Anthotium sp. Darling Range (F. Hort & B. Hort 2431)

Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate, spreading perennial, herb, to 0.05 m high. Yellow, grey or brown clayey sand, loam. Slopes, low plains, drainage lines of swampy flats.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 23 March 2007

Scientific Description

Stems unribbed. Leaves compressed, 30-60 mm long, 1-1.2 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles present, 3.5-4 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 3-5 mm long, glabrous. Corolla blue, mauve or pink, 8-10 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, glabrous on the outside, glabrous on the inside; central lobes 2.5-4 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 3-4 mm long, wing present on one side only, 0.4-0.5 mm wide. Anthers connate. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 3.5-5 mm long, glabrous; indusium single, glabrous; ovules more than two. Flowers in January and December. Occurs in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA Region(s), of the South West (SW) Botanical Province. Conservation Code: Conservation code Priority One (P1).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 2 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Wandering.