Andersonia sprengelioides
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Andersonia |
| Species: | A. sprengelioides |
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Andersonia sprengelioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west corner of Western Australia. It is a dense, cushion- or mat-like shrub with lance-shaped to more or less egg-shaped leaves and pink or bluish-purple flowers.
Andersonia sprengelioides is a dense, cushion- or mat-like shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–40 cm (3.9–15.7 in). Its leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, mostly 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) long and usually grooved. The flowers are arranged at the ends of the branches in groups of three to twelve with leaf-like bracts usually shorter than the flowers and shorter, boat-shaped bracteoles. The sepals are lance-shaped, pink to blue, mostly about 7 mm (0.28 in) long and sometimes hairy. The petals are pink or bluish-purple, forming a tube with lobes one half to three-quarters as long as the petal tube and bearded in the lower half. The stamens are about the same length as the petal tube, the anthers about 2 mm (0.079 in) long.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Andersonia sprengelioides was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae from specimens he collected in 1802.[2][4][5] The specific epithet (sprengelioides) means 'Sprengelia-like'.[6]