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Ptilotus clementii
Ptilotus clementii, commonly known as tassel top, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect to spreading annual herb, with hairy stems and leaves, and oval or cylindrical spikes of green flowers with five stamens.
Tassel top is found on rocky hills, limestone ridges and plains in the Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara and Tanami bioregions of Western Australia, the Burt Plain, Central Ranges, Channel Country, Davenport Murchison Ranges, Finke, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Gulf Fall and Uplands, Gulf Plains, Little Sandy Desert, MacDonnell Ranges Mitchell Grass Downs, Mount Isa Inlier, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields and Tanami bioregions of the Northern Territory, and the Mount Isa-Cloncurry area of north-west Queensland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus clementii 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.
