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Pityrodia iphthima

Pityrodia iphthima
Photo: NCRIS, Canberra - Modificado y subido por Philmarin, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
WC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Pityrodia iphthima is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to a small area in Western Australia. It is a small shrub with its branches, leaves and some of its flower parts densely covered with matted hairs. It has spike-like groups of up to forty flowers on the ends of the branches, the flowers tube-shaped, deep lilac and white, with brown spots inside.

Where it grows

This pityrodia grows on rocky hillsides of banded ironstone in the Gascoyne biogeographic region.

Other Pityrodia plants

Pityrodia augustensis · Pityrodia byrnesii · Pityrodia canaliculata · Pityrodia chrysocalyx · Pityrodia gilruthiana · Pityrodia hemigenioides · Pityrodia jamesii · Pityrodia lanuginosa · Pityrodia lepidota · Pityrodia loricata · Pityrodia obliqua · Pityrodia puberula

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pityrodia iphthima 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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