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Verticordia oxylepis Turcz.
Bonzai Featherflower

Reference
Bull.Cl.Phys.-Math.Acad.Imp.Sci.Saint-Pétersbourg 10:327 (1852)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Low spreading, almost prostrate shrub, 0.05-0.3 m high, to 0.6 m wide. Fl. yellow-cream-brown-red/pink-brown, Sep to Dec. Sandy or clay, often gravelly soils. Stony hillsides, rocky outcrops.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 14 February 1996
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Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.