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Mirbelia balsiformis

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Mirbelia balsiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far west of Western Australia. It is an erect to sprawling shrub with leaves reduced to triangular scales, and yellow to orange and red flowers arranged in racemes on the side of the branchlets.

Where it grows

This mirbelia grows on sandplains or low sand dunes in the area of Shark Bay to near Kalbarri in the Yalgoo bioregion of far western Western Australia.

Other Mirbelia plants

Mirbelia aotoides · Bauer's Merbelia · Mirbelia confertiflora · Mirbelia corallina · Mirbelia densiflora · Mirbelia depressa · Holly Leaved Mirbelia · Mirbelia ferricola · Purple Mirbelia · Mirbelia granitica · Mirbelia longifolia · Mirbelia microphylla

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mirbelia balsiformis 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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