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Ptilotus aristatus, commonly known as pink pussy-tail, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Central Australia. It is an annual or perennial herb with sessile, spatula-shaped or egg-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, and egg-shaped, narrowly egg-shaped or elliptic stem leaves and spikes of pink to pinkish-purple flowers.
Ptilotus aristatus subsp. aristatus occurs in the Northern Territory near the South Australian border and as far south as the Evelyn Downs station, where it grows in open vegetation on gibber plains and slopes, sometimes on nearby floodouts. Subspecies micranthus is restricted to a relatively small area of the Northern Territory in the Burt Plain bioregion, about 100 km (62 mi) west-north-west of Alice Springs, where it grows on cracking clay plain.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus aristatus 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.
