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Leptosema aphyllum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to semi-arid regions of Western Australia. It is a prostrate or low-lying shrub or subshrub with flat, wavy, winged stems and branches, leaves reduced to narrowly triangular scales that fall off, red flowers, and linear, beaked pods.
This species of Leptosema grows in semi-arid regions in woodland or shrubland in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of mostly inland Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosema aphyllum 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.
