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Thorny Mirbelia

Mirbelia spinosa

Thorny Mirbelia
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Mirbelia spinosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spiny shrub with narrowly linear leaves and yellow, orange and reddish-brown flowers.

Where it grows

Mirbelia spinosa grows on sandy soil on plains, hills, ridges and on granite in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Mirbelia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mirbelia spinosa 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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