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Marianthus mollis

Marianthus mollis
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia (Eyre)
Climate
subtropical

About

Marianthus mollis, commonly known as hairy-fruited billardiera, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to a small region in the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading, silky-hairy shrub with sessile, egg-shaped leaves and purplish-blue flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

Marianthus mollis is only known from the area near where the type collection was made, where it grows in open mallee and tall shrubland in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Marianthus plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Marianthus mollis 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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