Petrophile circinata

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Petrophile circinata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Petrophile
Species:
P. circinata
Binomial name
Petrophile circinata
Synonyms [1]

Petrophila circinataMeisn. orth. var.

Petrophile circinata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with pinnately-divided, sharply-pointed leaves, and more or less spherical heads of hairy, white, yellow or cream-coloured flowers.

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Description

Petrophile circinata is a spreading, ground-hugging shrub that typically grows to a height of 25–80 cm (9.8–31.5 in) and has hairy young branchlets. The leaves are 50–200 mm (2.0–7.9 in) long on a petiole about 13 mm (0.51 in) long. They are pinnately-divided to the midrib with sharply-pointed pinnae 5–22 mm (0.20–0.87 in) long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets in sessile, more or less spherical heads about 25 mm (0.98 in) in diameter, with many leathery involucral bracts often more than 20 mm (0.79 in) long at the base. The flowers are about 40 mm (1.6 in) long, white, yellow or cream-coloured and hairy. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is a nut, fused with others in a more or less spherical head about 40 mm (1.6 in) in diameter. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Petrophile circinata was first formally described in 1855 by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany from an unpublished description by Richard Kippist. The type specimens were collected by James Drummond. [4] [5] The specific epithet (circinata) means "rounded". [6]

Distribution and habitat

This petrophile grows in low shrubland, scrub and heath between Pingelly, Boorabbin, Lake Grace and Lake King in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions of southwestern Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Petrophile circinata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Petrophile circinata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 Foreman, David B. "Petrophile circinata". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 "Petrophile circinata". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. "Petrophile circinata". APNI. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  5. Meissner, Carl (1855). "New Proteaceae of Australia". Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Gardens Miscellany. 7: 67. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  6. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 164. ISBN   9780958034180.