Diplolaena angustifolia

Diplolaena angustifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Diplolaena
Species: D. angustiflora
Binomial name
Diplolaena angustiflora

Diplolaena angustiflora, commonly known as Yanchep rose, is a shrub which is endemic to the area around Perth in Western Australia. It has many small flowers with long bright stamens that are crowded in to heads surrounded by petal-like bracts, so that the whole resembles a many-stamened single flower.

Description and distribution

The Yanchep rose Diplolaena angustifolia, has pendant heads up to three or four centimetres across, surrounded by a series of bracts. Stamens up to 3 centimetres long, range in colour from orange to crimson. It is a winter-flowering shrub which grows to about a metre in height on sandy and limestone country around Perth.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Wildflowers of Western Australia by Barbara Mullins, Photography by Douglass Baglin, 1978, third printing in 1984. A Mulavon publication, ISBN 0 85899 032 6
  • "Diplolaena angustifolia Hook. Yanchep Rose". FloraBase: The West Australian Flora.
  • "Diplolaena angustifolia Hook". Atlas of Living Australia.
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  • http://www.stridvall.se/flowers/gallery/Diplolaena/755_10
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