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Petrophile anceps

Petrophile anceps
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Petrophile anceps is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with sharply-pointed, linear leaves and oval heads of hairy yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This petrophile is restricted to the Stirling Range where it grows in heath and scrub.

Other Petrophile plants

Petrophile acicularis · Petrophile aculeata · Petrophile antecedens · Petrophile arcuata · Petrophile aspera · Petrophile axillaris · Granite Petrophile · Petrophile biternata · Petrophile brevifolia · Conesticks · Petrophile carduacea · Petrophile chrysantha

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Petrophile anceps 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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