| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Lawrencia densiflora | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms [3] | |
Plagianthus densiflorusBaker 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]
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