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Lissanthe scabra is a rigid, erect, branching shrub in the heather family, growing up to about 1 m high, endemic to south-west Western Australia. It is poorly known in cultivation and is a rare wild species listed as Priority Two.
Lissanthe scabra is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rigid, erect, branching shrub that typically grows up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high. The flowers are white and borne on a pedicel above bracteoles.
Lissanthe scabra was first formally described in 2003 by Darren Crayn and Elizabeth Brown in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Michael Hislop in 2000. The specific epithet (scabra) means "rough", referring to the stem.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lissanthe scabra 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.
