Baeckea grandiflora

Baeckea grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Baeckea
Species: B. grandiflora
Binomial name
Baeckea grandiflora

Baeckea grandiflora, commonly known as the large-flowered baeckea, is a common heathland shrub found in coastal central Western Australia.[1]

The erect, open to straggly shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 2 metres (2 to 7 ft) and has terete widely spaced leaves that are 5 to 10 millimetres (0.20 to 0.39 in) in length.[2] It blooms from August to December producing pink-white flowers[1] that have a diameter of 10 to 15 mm (0.39 to 0.59 in).[2]

It is often found on plains, undulating hills and breakaways in the Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region around the Shire of Gingin where i grows in gravelly loamy and sandy soils over laterite.[1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1867 in the work Compositae Flora Australiensis[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Baeckea grandiflora". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 Margaret G. Corrick; Bruce Alexander Fuhrer (2009). Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia. Rosenberg Publishing. p. 111. ISBN 9781877058844.
  3. ↑ "Baeckea grandiflora Benth". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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