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Leptosema uniflorum is a low, spreading, prostrate shrub from northern Australia with flat green stems, dark red flowers and beaked pods. It grows in sandy, well-drained soils over sandstone or laterite, so good drainage and full sun are the key to growing it.
Leptosema uniflorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of the Northern Territory. It is a prostrate or low-growing perennial shrub or subshrub with compressed or flat stems and branches, leaves reduced to narrowly egg-shaped scales, dark red flowers, and spindle-shaped, beaked pods.
Leptosema uniflorum grows in sand over sandstone or laterite in heath or woodland in Arnhem Land and offshore islands including Melville Island.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosema uniflorum 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.
