Lawrencia densiflora

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Lawrencia densiflora

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Malvales
Family:  | Malvaceae
Genus:  | Lawrencia
Species:  |

L. densiflora

Binomial name
Lawrencia densiflora

(Baker f.) Melville[1][2]

Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms[3]

Plagianthus densiflorus Baker f.

Lawrencia densiflora is a species of plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia[1][4]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Habitat
* 3 Distribution
* 4 Taxonomy
* 5 References

## Description

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]

## Habitat

It grows on limestone and sandy or clayey soils, and is found in dry watercourses, claypans, salty depressions and limestone ridges.[1]

## Distribution

It is found in Beard's Eremaean Province and in the IBRA regions of Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Pilbara and Yalgoo.[1]

## Taxonomy

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]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Florabase: Lawrencia densiflora". Western Australian Herbarium, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/4953.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Melville, R. 1967. Contributions to the Flora of Australia: VII. Generic delimitation in the Plagianthus complex. Kew Bulletin 20(3): 514
3. ↑ Govaerts, R. et al. 2018\. "Plants of the World online: Lawrencia densiflora synonyms". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:561282-1.
4. ↑ "AVH: Lawrencia densiflora (occurrence map)". Australasian Virtual Herbarium. http://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Lawrencia++densiflora#tab_mapView.
5. ↑ "APNI: Plagianthus densiflorus". Australian Plant Name Index. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/instance/apni/468562.
6. ↑ Baker, E.G. 1892. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 30: 72
7. ↑ "APNI: Lawrencia densiflora". Australian Plant Name Index. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/instance/apni/529992.

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