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Quoya loxocarpa

Quoya loxocarpa
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Western Australia to SW. Northern Territory
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Quoya loxocarpa is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is an open shrub with many spindly tangled branches. The leaves are oblong and woolly when young and the flowers are whitish pink with purple spots inside and are surrounded by woolly sepals.

Where it grows

This quoya mostly grows in shrubland in coastal areas in sand over limestone however it is also found in inland areas near Wiluna and Carnegie and near the border with South Australia and the Northern Territory. There are a few records from the Northern Territory.

Other Quoya plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quoya loxocarpa 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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