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Androcalva lachna

Androcalva lachna
Photo: New York Botanical Garden, CC BY 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
NW. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Androcalva lachna is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the far west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves, and heads of 4 to 12 white and pink flowers.

Where it grows

This species grows on the slopes of sand dunes and in the swales with spinifex, in the Kennedy Range National Park and north of Carnarvon.

Other Androcalva plants

Androcalva adenothalia · Androcalva aphrix · Androcalva argentea · Androcalva beeronensis · Androcalva bivillosa · Androcalva crispa · Androcalva cuneata · Androcalva fragifolia · Androcalva fraseri · Androcalva gaudichaudii · Androcalva incilis · Androcalva inglewoodensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Androcalva lachna by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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