Lissanthe pleurandroides
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| Lissanthe pleurandroides | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Lissanthe |
| Species: | L. pleurandroides |
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| Lissanthe pleurandroides | |
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Lissanthe pleurandroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, moderately dense shrub with oblong leaves and spikes of tube-shaped, white or pink flowers.
Lissanthe pleurandroides is an erect, moderately dense shrub that typically grows to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high, its branchlets covered sometimes with short, soft hairs. The leaves are oblong, 4 mm (0.16 in) long on a petiole 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long with two longitudinal furrows on the lower surface. The flowers are borne in dense spike or clusters on the ends of the branches on a spike about the same length as the leaves with very small bracts and bracteoles less than half the length of the sepals. The sepals are about 2 mm (0.079 in) long with soft hairs on the edges. The petal are joined at the base, forming a tube about 4 mm (0.16 in) long with lobes about 2 mm (0.079 in) long.[2][3]