Plants → Magnoliophyta → Magnoliopsida → Asterales → Goodeniaceae R. Br. → Lechenaultia R.Br. → Lechenaultia biloba Lindl.

Lechenaultia biloba Lindl. Blue Leschenaultia
Sketch Veg.Swan R. 27 (1839)

Conservation Code: Not threatened
Naturalised Status: Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
Name Status: Current
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Brief Description
Amanda Spooner, Friday 27 September 2002

Diffuse, ascending shrub, 0.15-1(-1.6) m high, with distinctive large corolla wings. Fl. blue, Jul to Dec. Lateritic or granitic soils. Hills, outcrops, flats.

Distribution

Beard’s Provinces: Eremaean Province, South-West Province.

IBRA Regions: Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.

IBRA Subregions: Avon Wheatbelt P1, Avon Wheatbelt P2, Dandaragan Plateau, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Southern Cross, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.

Local Government Areas (LGAs): Armadale, Augusta-Margaret River, Beverley, Boddington, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Brookton, Broomehill-Tambellup, Bruce Rock, Busselton, Capel, Carnamah, Chittering, Collie, Coorow, Corrigin, Cuballing, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Dardanup, Denmark, Donnybrook-Balingup, Dowerin, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gingin, Goomalling, Gosnells, Greater Geraldton, Harvey, Irwin, Kalamunda, Kent, Kojonup, Kondinin, Kulin, Lake Grace, Manjimup, Merredin, Moora, Mukinbudin, Mundaring, Murray, Nannup, Narembeen, Narrogin, Nedlands, Northam, Perenjori, Perth, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Swan, Three Springs, Toodyay, Victoria Plains, Wagin, Wandering, Wanneroo, Waroona, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, Wongan-Ballidu, Woodanilling, Wyalkatchem, Yilgarn, York.

Scientific Description
Chris Hollister and Kevin Thiele, Wednesday 17 May 2017

Stems ribbed. Leaves flat, 2.5-9 mm long, 0.4-1 mm wide, absent (leaves glabrous); margins entire. Bracteoles present, 7-10 mm long, glabrous. Flowers Presence pedicellate, the pedicels 7-10 mm long, glabrous. Calyx lobes present, Calyx length 4.5-5 mm long, glabrous. Corolla blue, 12-25 mm long, without auricles, not spurred, glabrous on the outside, hairy on the inside, with wings, 1.6-8 mm wide, wings present on both sides, NaN (?) mm wide, 1.5-4.5 mm wide on the narrower side. Anthers free. Ovary inferior, not gibbose; style 6-7 mm long, hairy; indusium single, hairy; ovules more than two. Flowers in August, September and October. Occurs in the Coolgardie (COO), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR) and Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA Region(s), of the Eremaean (E) and South West (SW) Botanical Province.