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Dwarf Micrantheum

Micrantheum demissum

Dwarf Micrantheum
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0
Family
Picrodendraceae (Picrodendr family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Micrantheum demissum is a species of flowering plant in the family Picrodendraceae and is endemic to the south-east of South Australia. It is a dense, dwarf, monoecious shrub with lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves arranged in whorls of three, and pink flowers, arranged in leaf axils in groups of up to three.

Where it grows

This species occurs on the Eyre Peninsula, southern Mount Lofty Ranges and Kangaroo Island regions of south-eastern South Australia.

Other Micrantheum plants

Micrantheum ericoides · Micrantheum hexandrum · Micrantheum serpentinum · Micrantheum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Micrantheum demissum 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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