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Mirbelia microphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with many branches that typically grows to a height of 15–100 cm (5.9–39.4 in) and has yellow and red flowers from August to October. It was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow who gave it the name ''Dichosema microphyllum in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. In 1864, George Bentham changed the name to Mirbelia microphylla in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (microphylla) means "small-leaved".
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mirbelia microphylla 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.
