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| Lawrencia densiflora | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Lawrencia |
| Species: | L. densiflora
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| Binomial name | |
| Lawrencia densiflora (Baker f.) Melville[1][2]
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Plagianthus densiflorus Baker f. | |
Lawrencia densiflora is a species of plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia[1][4]
L. densiflora is a perennial shrub/herb, growing to a height from 0.07 to 0.6 m.[1] The stems are hairy.[1] The leaves are irregularly lobed, 10 to 40 mm long and 5 to 20 mm wide, with stellate hairs.[1] The flowers have both a calyx and a corolla, and are yellow to cream and seen between July and October.[1]
It grows on limestone and sandy or clayey soils, and is found in dry watercourses, claypans, salty depressions and limestone ridges.[1]
It is found in Beard's Eremaean Province and in the IBRA regions of Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara and Yalgoo.[1]
L. densiflora was first described as Plagianthus densiflorus by Baker in 1892,[5][6] and in 1967, was redescribed by Melville who assigned it to the genus, Lawrencia, with the plant thereby becoming Lawrencia densiflora.[7][2]
Wikidata ☰ Q17580125 entry
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