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Thomasia gardneri

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SC. Western Australia (near Mt. Holland)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Thomasia gardneri, commonly known as Mount Holland thomasia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and was endemic to a restricted area of Western Australia, but is now considered to be extinct. It was a low, erect shrub with scaly, narrowly egg-shaped leaves and racemes of pink flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Thomasia is only known from specimens collected by Gardner from near Mount Holland, about 350 km (220 mi) east of Perth, in the Coolgardie bioregion of inland Western Australia. The details of its habitat are not known.

Other Thomasia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thomasia gardneri 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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