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Lambertia ericifolia R.Br.
Heath-leaved Honeysuckle

Reference
Prodr. Suppl. 30 (1830)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Slender, non-lignotuberous shrub or tree, to 5 m high. Fl. orange-red, Sep to Dec or Jan or Mar to May. Yellow-brown sandy clay, quartz sand, red rocky gravelly loam, laterite. Foothills, slopes & ridges of range.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 May 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves whorled, 8-20 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, glabrous; lamina flat, clearly widest above the middle, entire, the margins recurved or revolute; apex obtuse. Inflorescences orange or red; innermost bracts 18-20 mm long. Perianth 40-45 mm long, glabrous or hairy; pistil 45-53 mm long, style glabrous. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Kojonup, Plantagenet.