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Diplolaena obovata Paul G.Wilson

Reference
Nuytsia 12:117 (1998)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Small, erect shrub, 0.2-0.8 m high, leaves papery, broadly obovate, with sparse indumentum. Fl. yellow/green & red, May to Jun or Aug to Sep. Shallow sand over limestone. Coastal limestone.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 26 May 1998
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Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped). Leaves opposite, simple, 10-22 mm long, 8-15 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, with stellate (star shaped) hairs; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers in a distinct head surrounded by bracts, the outer bracts 10-15 mm long; pedicels 5-7 mm long; calyx minute or absent, smooth, without distinct raised glands; corolla red, yellow or green, petals five, 8-9 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens numerous (more than twice as many as petals), 15-22 mm long, smooth, hairy; anthers 1-1.2 mm long, without an appendage. Flowers in May, June, August and September. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Swan Coastal Plain and Geraldton IBRA region(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 14 November 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Perth.
IMCRA Regions
Central West Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Coorow, Dandaragan, Gingin, Irwin.