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Hibiscus burtonii F.M.Bailey

Reference
Queensland Agric.J. 2:7 (1891)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Open shrub, 0.3-1.5 m high. Fl. pink-purple/white-yellow, Mar to Sep. Sandy soils, loam, gravel. Drainage lines, rocky sandstone hills.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 September 1996
1000 km
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Scientific Description

Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 23-60 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, not lobed; margins serrate; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present and persistent to older leaves or present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves), 8-12 mm long. Perianth clearly of two whorls (calyx and corolla), the corolla obvious and prominent. Pedicel present, 5-10 mm long; indumentum present, with stellate hairs present, with scales absent. Epicalyx (extra segments or 'bracteoles' immediately below the calyx) present, 1.5-2.8 mm long, the lobes free, indumentum present, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) present, stellate hairs presentwith scales absent, Sessile glands absent. Calyx green, 6-11 mm long, the lobes fused less than half their length, Sessile glands absent, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) absent, stellate hairs present, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent, Terminal appendages absent, number of ribs absent. Corolla yellow, white, pink or purple, 9-25 mm long, hairs or scales present, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) present, stellate hairs present, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent. Indumentum (outside) Sessile glands absent. Stamens many, united and arising from a staminal tube around the style; filaments present, 0.8-1 mm long; anthers 0.6-1 mm long, indumentum absent (anthers glabrous). Staminodes absent, appendages absent. Ovary hairs or scales present, simple hairs present, stellate hairs absent; style 1, 6-10 mm long, with five style branches or lobes, mostly glabrous, wing absent. Fruits dehiscent (capsules and follicles), length-width ratio more or less as long as wide, hairs or scales present, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) present, stellate hairs present, Sessile glands absent, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent; apex rounded; prickles absent (except perhaps a terminal awn); terminal awns or spines absent; calyx persistent to mature fruit; seeds per loculus 2-4. Flowering time April, June, July, August or September. Distribution Botanical Province Eremaean, IBRA Bioregion Pilbara, Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, Central Ranges and Murchison.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 11 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Carnegie, Central, Chichester, Eastern Murchison, Fortescue, Hamersley, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, Mann-Musgrave Block, McLarty, Rudall, South Kimberley Interzone, Trainor, Western Murchison, Wooramel.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, East Pilbara, Halls Creek, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Murchison, Ngaanyatjarraku, Sandstone, Upper Gascoyne, Wiluna.