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Balaustion thamnoides

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

About

Balaustion thamnoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is shrub with mostly narrowly elliptic leaves and white or pale pink flowers with 19 to 28 stamens.

Where it grows

This species of Balaustion often grows in gravelly or rocky soils with Melaleuca, Allocasuarina or Eucalyptus species between Hatter Hill and the western end of Frank Hann National Park, in the Mallee bioregion of south-western 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 thamnoides 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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