Baeckea robusta
Species of flowering plant
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Baeckea robusta is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to an area along the west coast Western Australia. It is an erect and slender shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.9 to 2.6 metres (3.0 to 8.5 ft) and blooms between June and December producing white to white-pink flowers. It is found on sand plains and around limestone outcrops in the coastal parts of the Mid West and extending south into the north west of the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils over laterite or limestone.[2]
| Baeckea robusta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Baeckea |
| Species: | B. robusta |
| Binomial name | |
| Baeckea robusta | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Babingtonia robusta (F.Muell.) F.Muell. | |
The species was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1864 in his book Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, from specimens collected near the Murchison River by Augustus Oldfield.[3][4]
