Thomasia petalocalyx | |
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In Great Otway National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Genus: | Thomasia |
Species: | T. petalocalyx |
Binomial name | |
Thomasia petalocalyx | |
Thomasia petalocalyx, commonly known as paper flower, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a shrub with wrinkled, oblong to egg-shaped leaves and cup-shaped mauve flowers.
Thomasia petalocalyx is a shrub that typically grows to 0.5–1.5 m (1 ft 8 in – 4 ft 11 in) high, 0.5–2 m (1 ft 8 in – 6 ft 7 in) wide and has its new growth covered in star-shaped hairs. The leaves are oblong to egg-shaped, 20–40 mm (0.79–1.57 in) long and 5–13 mm (0.20–0.51 in) wide on a petiole 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) long with hairy brown, wing-like stipules 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) long at the base of the petioles. The leaves are covered with star-shaped hairs, and the edges are wrinkled, turned down and finely toothed. The flowers are arranged singly or in racemes of up to 5 on a red peduncle 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in) long near the ends of the branches. Each flower is on a pedicel 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) long, with 3 bracteoles 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long at the base. The sepals are mauve and form a cup-shaped flower 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) wide, the petals deep red and tiny. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Thomasia petalocalyx was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in his book Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants. [6] [7] The specific epithet (petalocalyx) refers to the petal-like sepals. [3]
Paper flower grows in forest, woodland, coastal heath and on granite outcrops in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia, in the south-east of South Australia, including on Kangaroo Island, and in scattered locations in the west and south-west of Victoria, with an isolated population on Wilsons Promontory, where it is common. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Thomasia tenuivestita is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with its new growth covered with greyish, star-shaped hairs, and has egg-shaped leaves, and racemes of mauve flowers.
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Prostanthera melissifolia, commonly known as balm mint bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branches, egg-shaped leaves with fine teeth on the edges and mauve to purple or pink flowers on the ends of branchlets.
Lasiopetalum behrii, commonly known as the pink velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves and groups of white to pink and reddish-brown flowers.
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Trochocarpa clarkei, commonly known as lilac berry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. It is a dense, often low-lying shrub with oblong leaves and bisexual flowers arrange in dense flowering spikes, usually on old wood, with maroon and green petals joined at the base to from an urn-shaped to bell-shaped tube with dense tufts of hairs in the throat. The fruit is a bluish-purple drupe.
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Seringia velutina, commonly known as velvet firebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae family and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a suckering shrub that sometimes forms dense colonies. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped and it has 3 to 11 pale pink to purple flowers arranged in loose cymes.
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