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Androcalva melanopetala

Androcalva melanopetala
Photo: John Wrigley, CC BY 3.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Androcalva melanopetala is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to southern inland Western Australia. It is a sometimes prostrate shrub that has densely hairy new growth, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves with rounded teeth on the edges, and clusters of white or cream-coloured and pink to red flowers.

Where it grows

This androcalva grows in mallee and grassland, on sand dunes and sand plains in the Great Victoria Desert between Cundeelee, Plumridge Lakes and Queen Victoria Spring Nature Reserve in the Coolgardie and Great Victoria Desert bioregions of southern inland Western Australia.

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 melanopetala 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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