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Ptilotus davisii

Ptilotus davisii
Photo: Tim Hammer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Ptilotus davisii, commonly known as Davis's mulla mulla, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with hairy, linear to lance-shaped leaves, and hemispherical to spherical spikes of pink or magenta flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Ptilotus has been collected on winter-wet plains, near creeks and in roadside drains, often in wandoo woodland and Melaleuca shrubland in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Ptilotus plants

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 davisii 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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