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Kelleria bogongensis

Kelleria bogongensis is a small alpine shrub native only to the Bogong High Plains in Victoria, Australia, growing among tussock grasslands. It is rare and listed as threatened, so it is not realistically grown in gardens and is best appreciated in the wild.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Native to moist alpine grassland; keep soil evenly damp in cultivation and avoid drying out.
Soil
Cool, free-draining, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cold alpine winters; protect from prolonged heat above 25 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Kelleria bogongensis is a Victorian endemic species in the family Thymelaeaceae.

Where it grows

The species is known only from the Bogong High Plains where it grows in alpine tussock grasslands. It is listed as Vulnerable in Australia and Critically Endangered in Victoria.

Other Kelleria plants

Alpine Kelleria · Kelleria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kelleria bogongensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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