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Lechenaultia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae, the species native to Australia with one species (L. filiformis) also occurring in New Guinea. Plants in the genus Lechenaultia are glabrous shrubs or herbs with needle-shaped leaves, more or less sessile flowers with five sepals and five blue, white, or yellow and red petals in two unequal lobes, the fruit an elongated capsule.
The majority of Lechenaultia species occur in the south-west of Western Australia and most of these occur in shrubland. Lechenaultia biloba grows in forests, and inland species occur in open grassland or woodland. Some species particularly adapted to arid conditions extend across central Australia as far as inland New South Wales, while L. filiformis is found across northern Australia to New Guinea. All species grow in well-drained, sandy soil apart from L. expansa, which grows in permanently wet soil.
Lechenaultia acutiloba · Lechenaultia aphylla · Blue Leschenaultia · Lechenaultia brevifolia · Lechenaultia chlorantha · Lechenaultia divaricata · Lechenaultia expansa · Lechenaultia filiformis · Lechenaultia floribunda · Red Leschenaultia · Lechenaultia galactites · Lechenaultia heteromera
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