Lissanthe pluriloculata
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| Lissanthe pluriloculata | |
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| In Carnarvon National Park | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Genus: | Lissanthe |
| Species: | L. pluriloculata |
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| Lissanthe pluriloculata | |
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Lissanthe pluriloculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a small, bushy shrub with sharply-pointed linear leaves and spikes or racemes of tube-shaped, white flowers.
Lissanthe pluriloculata is small but robust, bushy shrub with branchlets covered with short, soft hairs. The leaves are crowded, sharply-pointed, and concave, mostly about 12 mm (0.47 in) long with the edges turned under. The flowers are mostly borne in short spikes or racemes on the ends of the branches with very small bracts and bracteoles at the base. The sepals are blunt, 1.6–2 mm (0.063–0.079 in) long and the petal are joined at the base, forming a tube slightly longer than the sepals with lobes nearly as long as the petal tube.[2]