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Balaustion filifolium

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Balaustion filifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a prostrate or low-growing shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to linear leaves with a small point on the end, and pale pink flowers with 16 to 24 stamens.

Where it grows

This species of Balaustion has been recorded on sand plains and near granite outcrops from Beringbooding Rock to west of Mukinbudin in the Avon Wheatbelt and Coolgardie bioregions, and is usually recorded growing with Acacia species.

Other Balaustion plants

Balaustion exsertum · Balaustion grande · Balaustion baiocalyx · Balaustion bimucronatum · Balaustion grandibracteatum · Balaustion hemisphaericum · Balaustion interruptum · Balaustion karroun · Balaustion mukinbudin · Balaustion multicaule · Balaustion polyandrum · Native Pomegranate

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Balaustion filifolium 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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