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Verticordia apecta

Verticordia apecta
Photo: Cal Wood, CC BY 4.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia (SW. Mt. Barker)
Climate
subtropical

About

Verticordia apecta, commonly known as scruffy verticordia or Hay River featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with linear lower stem leaves, narrow elliptic upper stem leaves and elliptic to egg-shaped leaves near the flowers. There are only a few flowers in the upper leaf axils on relatively long stalks and the sepals are deep pink with fine, white fringes.

How to grow it

Due to the relatively recent discovery of this species, few attempts at propagation have been attempted and all so far have been unsuccessful.

Where it grows

This verticordia grows in sandy clay in low, open Eucalyptus wandoo woodland in a small area near Mount Barker in the Jarrah Forest biogeographic region.

Other Verticordia plants

Verticordia acerosa · Verticordia aereiflora · White featherflower · Verticordia amphigia · Verticordia argentea · Verticordia attenuata · Verticordia aurea · Verticordia auriculata · Verticordia bifimbriata · Verticordia blepharophylla · Verticordia brachypoda · Verticordia brevifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Verticordia apecta 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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