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Painted Marianthus

Marianthus bicolor

Painted Marianthus
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
W. & SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Marianthus bicolor, commonly known as painted marianthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a low, erect, spreading shrub or climber with narrowly elliptic leaves and white to cream-coloured flowers with maroon or purple striations flowers arranged in branched clusters.

Where it grows

Marianthus bicolor grows in mallee in valleys, on hills, flats, sandplains and roadsides, and is widespread in the south-west of Western Australia, mainly from the Darling Range to Ravensthorpe.

Other Marianthus plants

Marianthus aquilonaris · Orange Bell Climber · Marianthus candidus · Marianthus coeruleopunctatus · Marianthus drummondianus · Marianthus dryandra · Marianthus erubescens · Marianthus granulatus · Marianthus microphyllus · Marianthus mollis · Marianthus paralius · Marianthus ringens

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Marianthus bicolor 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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