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Wallum Phebalium

Phebalium woombye

Wallum Phebalium
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Phebalium woombye, commonly known as wallum phebalium, is a species of shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has branchlets covered with scales and star-shaped hairs, elliptical leaves, and white to pink flowers arranged in umbels of four to ten flowers.

Where it grows

Phebalium woombye grows in coastal sand dunes, and on sandstones, sometimes also on granite in the Gibraltar Range. It is distributed from south-east Queensland to as far south as Glenreagh in New South Wales.

Other Phebalium plants

Phebalium appressum · Phebalium bifidum · Phebalium brachycalyx · Phebalium brevifolium · Desert Phebalium · Phebalium canaliculatum · Phebalium clavatum · Davies' Wax Flower · Phebalium distans · Phebalium drummondii · Phebalium elegans · Phebalium festivum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phebalium woombye 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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