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Philotheca nodiflora (Lindl.) Paul G.Wilson subsp. nodiflora

Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.2-0.8 m high. Fl. pink-purple-blue, Aug to Nov. Gravel. Lateritic outcrops, ironstone ridges, creek beds.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 August 1996

Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 5-10 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, flat, the margins flat, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous. Flowers in a distinct head not surrounded by bracts or in terminal, loose clusters (cymes or panicles); pedicels 4-5 mm long; calyx present, 3.5-4 mm long, smooth, without distinct raised glands, covered in hairs or scales, the hairs stellate (star-shaped); corolla pink, purple or blue, petals five, 8-9 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 3-4 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 0.7 mm long, with an appendage. Flowers in August, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest IBRA region(s).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Chittering, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, West Arthur.