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Ptilotus conicus is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is native to northern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia. It is an erect annual herb, with narrowly linear leaves on the stems, and cylindrical spikes of pink, magenta or red flowers with five stamens.
This species of Ptilotus grows on rocky outcrops, in coastal areas and sandstone plateaux in the Dampierland and Northern Kimberley bioregions of northern Western Australia, the northern parts of the Northern Territory, and also in New Guinea, the Lesser Sunda and Maluku Islands in Indonesia.
Ptilotus actinocladus · Ptilotus aervoides · Ptilotus albidus · Ptilotus alexandri · Ptilotus andersonii · Ptilotus angustifolius · Leafless Mulla Mulla · Ptilotus appendiculatus · Ptilotus aristatus · Ptilotus arthrolasius · Ptilotus astrolasius · Ptilotus auriculifolius
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus conicus 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.
