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Balaustion quinquelobum

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

About

Balaustion quinquelobum is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is low-growing to fairly erect shrub with narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly oblong to linear leaves, and white or pale pink flowers with 18 to 25 stamens.

Where it grows

This species of Balaustion grows in sandy soil in a range of vegetation associations between Welbungin, south to Lake Grace and to the east of Lake King in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions in the south-west of Western Australia.

Other Balaustion plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Balaustion quinquelobum 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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