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Wrinkled Leaf Lysiosepalum

Lysiosepalum rugosum

Wrinkled Leaf Lysiosepalum
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. & SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Lysiosepalum rugosum, also known as the wrinkled-leaf lysiosepalum, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is shrub with its young branches covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs, and has narrowly egg-shaped leaves and blue, purple of pink flowers usually in groups of 4 to 6.

Where it grows

Wrinkled-leaf lysiosepalum grows in a range of soils, but usually on lateritic gravels in open woodland and shrubland, and is widely distributed from north-east of Geraldton to Manmanning in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest IBRA bioregions of south-west Western Australia.

Other Lysiosepalum plants

Lysiosepalum abollatum · Lysiosepalum aromaticum · Lysiosepalum hexandrum · Lysiosepalum involucratum · Lysiosepalum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lysiosepalum rugosum 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.

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