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Seringia saxatilis

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Seringia saxatilis, commonly known as gorge fire-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to Kalbarri National Park in Western Australia. It is a sprawling, open shrub with hairy young stems, oblong to broadly elliptic leaves and purple flowers arranged in groups of 3 to 6.

Where it grows

This species of seringia is only known from the Kalbarri area where it grows among sandstone boulders in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of Western Australia.

Other Seringia plants

Seringia hermanniifolia · Seringia integrifolia · Seringia adenogyna · Seringia adenolasia · Lofty Fire Bush · Chocolate Fire Bush · Hillside Fire Bush · Inland Velvet Flower · Seringia denticulata · Fringed Fire Bush · Mountain Fire Bush · Glandular Fire Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Seringia saxatilis 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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