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Pityrodia lepidota is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, densely-branched shrub with small leaves and whitish, bell-shaped flowers. The entire plant, apart from the petals, is densely covered with small, circular scales.
This pityrodia grows in sandy or gravelly soils on sandplains and dunes. It is mainly found in the between Merredin and Coolgardie, as far north as Mongers Lake near Perenjori and Lake Moore near Wubin and as far south as the Lake King to Lake Grace road. Its distribution lies within the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee and Murchison biogeographic regions.
Pityrodia augustensis · Pityrodia byrnesii · Pityrodia canaliculata · Pityrodia chrysocalyx · Pityrodia gilruthiana · Pityrodia hemigenioides · Pityrodia iphthima · Pityrodia jamesii · Pityrodia lanuginosa · Pityrodia loricata · Pityrodia obliqua · Pityrodia puberula
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pityrodia lepidota 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.
