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Petrophile filifolia subsp. laxa Rye & Hislop

Reference
Nuytsia 15:469-470, Fig. 1i (2005)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erct, spreading shrub, to 0.75 m high. White gritty sand, brown, red,yellow, white or grey sand, brown-yellow sandy clay. Winter-wet sites, flats, slopes, swamps, drainage lines.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 12 May 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 0.5-1 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, 160-350 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, glabrous; lamina terete, entire, straight or curved, scabrous, apex acute, 1-1.2 mm long. Inflorescences not viscid, white or cream. Perianth 14-20 mm long, hairy, the limb apex hairy all over; pistil 14-20 mm long; pollen presenter not fusiform, hairy, 5-5.6 mm long, the brush 3-4.2 mm long. Cone with persistent scales, 28-30 mm long. Flowers in November or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Jarrah Forest (JF) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Three (P3).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Armadale, Wandering.