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Ptilotus dissitiflorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to northern Australia.
In 1864, Ferdinand von Mueller described Trichinium dissitiflorum in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens he collected "near drier places near the Gulf of Carpentaria", but in 1882 he transferred it to Ptilotus as P. dissitiflorus in his Systematic Census of Australian Plants. The specific epithet (dissitiflorus) means "with well-spaced flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus dissitiflorus 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.
