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Diplolaena ferruginea Paul G.Wilson

Reference
Nuytsia 1:198 (1971)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, 0.2-0.6(-1) m high, outer bracts narrowly triangular. Fl. red & green, Jul to Oct. Sand, lateritic gravel, clay. Breakaways, hillslopes, sandplains, 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, 15-40 mm long, 8-20 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 12-17 mm long; pedicels 6-12 mm long; calyx minute or absent, smooth, without distinct raised glands; corolla red or green, petals five, 8-9 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, hairy on the surfaces; stamens numerous (more than twice as many as petals), 15-20 mm long, smooth, hairy; anthers 1-2 mm long, without an appendage. Flowers in July, August, September and October. 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.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Carnamah, Coorow, Dandaragan, Greater Geraldton, Irwin, Three Springs.