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Phlebocarya filifolia (F.Muell.) Benth.

Reference
Fl.Austral. 6:425 (1873)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shortly rhizomatous, perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.15-0.4 m high. Fl. white-cream-blue, Oct to Dec. White, grey-brown sand, gravel.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 June 1994
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Scientific Description

Leaves round (leaves terete), 140-400 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide; bristles or hairs on the leaf margin present, 0.6-4 mm long, with at least some small side branches at the base, straight and rigid or flexuose and soft, lying parallel with the margin or angled towards the leaf apex; hairs on the surface of the leaf absent (leaf surfaces glabrous). Scape present, glabrous, 105-640 mm long. Inflorescence subtended by a bract 10-15 mm long, with several flowers; floral bracts 1.5-1.7 mm long; pedicels present, 0.3-1 mm long; flowers 5-7.5 mm long. Perianth hairy, radially symmetrical, uniformly coloured, white to cream, with six more or less equal tepals, the inner segments 4.5-5.7 mm long. Stamens six, in one level; filaments 0-0.5 mm long; anther 1.7-2 mm long, without an appendage. Style 2.7-4.5 mm long. Flowers in October, November or December. Occurs in the Geraldton Sandplains, Swan Coastal Plain and Jarrah Forest IBRA bioregion(s), of the South-west Botanical Province.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 18 January 2020

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
IMCRA Regions
Central West Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Augusta Margaret River, Belmont, Busselton, Capel, Cockburn, Coorow, Dandaragan, Gingin, Gosnells, Irwin, Kalamunda, Melville, Perth, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Victoria Plains.