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Conostephium preissii

Conostephium preissii
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Conostephium preissii is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with many stems, egg-shaped to oblong leaves and white and purplish to reddish-pink flowers.

Where it grows

This conostephium grows in heath on sandplains and winter-wet flats mainly on the coastal plain from near Eneabba to near Harvey, but also east of the Darling Scarp and further inland, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Conostephium plants

Conostephium drummondii · Conostephium hortiorum · Conostephium laeve · Conostephium magnum · Conostephium marchantiorum · Conostephium minus · Conostephium papillosum · Conostephium pendulum · Conostephium prolatum · Conostephium roei · Conostephium uncinatum · Conostephium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conostephium preissii 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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