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Marianthus erubescens

Marianthus erubescens
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Marianthus erubescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a woody, glabrous shrub or climber, with narrowly elliptic leaves and down-curved, red flowers arranged groups of three to six.

Where it grows

This species of marianthus grows in woodland, shrubland or mallee, on sandplains and breakaways, on granite outcrops or limestone between Morawa, Merredin, the Stirling Ranges and Cape Naturaliste in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Marianthus plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Marianthus erubescens 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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