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Coopernookia georgei Carolin
Mauve Coopernookia

Reference
Proc.Linn.Soc.New South Wales 92:213 (1968)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Slender shrub, 0.6-1.7 m high. Fl. pink-blue-purple, Jul to Nov. Stony gullies.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 8 February 2000
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Scientific Description

Stems ribbed. Leaves flat, 20-50 mm long, 5-15 mm wide, Indumentum absent (leaves glabrous); margins toothed. Bracteoles present, 2-4 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel pedicellate, Pedicel length the pedicels 3-6 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 7-10 mm long, glabrous. Corolla blue, 13.5-20 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, hairy on the outside, with sparse, simple hairs, hairy on the inside; central lobes 5-10 mm long, with wings; outer lobes 6.5-13 mm long, wings present on both sides, 1.5-2.5 mm wide. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 7-8 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules one or two. Flowers in July, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA Region(s), of the South West (SW) Botanical Province. Conservation Code: Conservation code Threatened (T).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ravensthorpe.