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Darwinia biflora is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect, often straggly shrub with flattened, glabrous leaves, and flowers which are arranged in pairs. The flowers are greenish in colour but each is surrounded by two purple-red bracteoles and have a long yellow-green style projecting out of the flower tube. The species only occurs in the Sydney region in a few places where shale-capped ridges intergrade with Hawkesbury sandstone.
Although there are herbarium specimens of this species from further afield, all the present populations occur in the urban areas of Sydney between Maroota and North Ryde. It grows in heath on sandstone ridge tops or in woodland where the sandstone intergrades with shale. Ninety of the 240 known sites where the species occurs are in national parks or other reserves but the remainder are in habitats often favoured for residential development.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Darwinia biflora 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.
