Andersonia ferricola
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| Andersonia ferricola | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Andersonia |
| Species: | A. ferricola |
| Binomial name | |
| Andersonia ferricola | |
Andersonia ferricola is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the southwest of Western Australia. It is a straggling shrub with twisted, narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pale lilac, tube-shaped flowers.
Andersonia ferricola is a straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in). The leaves are wavy, twisted, narrowly egg-shaped, and 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) long, the upper surface more or less glabrous and the lower surface with a few woolly hairs. The flowers are arranged in clusters of up to 30 in leaf axils, with narrowly egg-shaped, leaf-like bracteoles 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long. The sepals are narrowly egg-shaped to linear, 8–9 mm (0.31–0.35 in) long, and the petals form a cylindrical tube 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long with lobes spreading lobes 2.2–3.0 mm (0.087–0.118 in) long. The stamens are 6.6–8 mm (0.26–0.31 in) long, the anthers white and spindle-shaped to linear 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Andersonia ferricola was first formally described in 2007 by Kristina L. Lemson in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected in the Whicher Range area in 1993.[2][4] The specific epithet (ferricola) means 'iron-dweller', and refers to the species ironstone habitat.[2]