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Guichenotia apetala

Guichenotia apetala
Photo: Catherine Clowes, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Guichenotia apetala is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a small area in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a small, erect, compact shrub with many branches, densely hairy new growth, triangular to heart-shaped leaves, and salmon pink flowers.

Where it grows

This species of guichenotia grows open mallee scrubland, and is only known from Mount Desmond in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Guichenotia plants

Guichenotia alba · Guichenotia angustifolia · Guichenotia anota · Guichenotia asteriskos · Guichenotia astropletha · Guichenotia basiviridis · Guichenotia glandulosa · Guichenotia impudica · Guichenotia intermedia · Guichenotia ledifolia · Aussie Bells · Small Flowered Guichenotia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Guichenotia apetala 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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