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Lasiopetalum rotundifolium Paust

Reference
Nuytsia 1:356, Fig. 6 (1974)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, to 0.4 m high. Fl. pink. Gravelly clayey sand. Hill.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 1 October 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 10-36 mm long, 9-30 mm wide, not lobed; margins entire; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands present; stipules apparently absent, even from youngest leaves. Perianth of two whorls but the corolla reduced to small scales or tiny lobes at the base of the ovary. Pedicel present, 2.6-3 mm long; indumentum present, with stellate hairs present, with gland tipped hairs present, with scales absent. Epicalyx (extra segments or 'bracteoles' immediately below the calyx) present, 6-10 mm long, the lobes free, indumentum present, stellate hairs present, gland-tipped hairs gland tipped hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent. Calyx pink, 4-8 mm long, the lobes fused less than half their length, Sessile glands absent, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) absent, stellate hairs present, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent, Terminal appendages absent, number of ribs absent. Corolla glabrous. Indumentum (outside) Sessile glands absent. Stamens five, free and inserted at the base of the ovary; filaments present, 0.3-0.4 mm long; anthers 2-2.2 mm long, indumentum absent (anthers glabrous). Staminodes absent, appendages absent. Ovary hairs or scales present, simple hairs absent, stellate hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent; style 1, with a lobed or capitate stigma, 3.5-4.2 mm long, with one style branches or lobes, hairy for most of length, wing absent. Flowering time September, October, November or December. Distribution Botanical Province South-West, IBRA Bioregion Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest. Conservation Code Threatened (T).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 11 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Katanning, Northern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Brookton, Narrogin, Pingelly, Victoria Plains.