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Seringia velutina, commonly known as velvet firebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae family and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a suckering shrub that sometimes forms dense colonies. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped and it has 3 to 11 pale pink to purple flowers arranged in loose cymes.
Seringia velutina is widespread and common between Kalbarri, Ravensthorpe and inland to the Great Victoria Desert on rocky outcrops, plains and along roadsides in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia.
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 velutina 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.
