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Quoya dilatata

Quoya dilatata
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Quoya dilatata is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with its branches and leaves densely covered with a layer of white, woolly hairs. The leaves are wrinkled or crinkly and the tube-shaped flowers are orange-red and hairy on the outside.

Where it grows

Quoya dilatata mainly occurs between Perth and Carnamah but has also been found near Northam and Cowcowing, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions. The only known collection near the Murchison River was of the type specimen.

Other Quoya plants

Saltbush Foxglove · Quoya cuneata · Quoya loxocarpa · Oldfield's Foxglove · Quoya paniculata · Golden Bush · Quoya

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quoya dilatata 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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