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Thomasia formosa

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub

About

Thomasia × formosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with densely hairy branchlets, hairy, coarsely serrated, egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong leaves, and racemes of pink or purple flowers arranged in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This thomasia grows in mallee woodland, shrubland and heath in a restricted area near Three Springs in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Thomasia plants

Narrow Leaved Thomasia · Thomasia brachystachys · Thomasia cognata · Thomasia dielsii · Thomasia discolor · Thomasia foliosa · Thomasia gardneri · Thomasia glabripetala · Large Flowered Thomasia · Thomasia macrocalyx · Large Fruited Thomasia · Thomasia microphylla

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thomasia × formosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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