Petalostylis labicheoides
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| Butterfly bush | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Petalostylis |
| Species: | P. labicheoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Petalostylis labicheoides | |
Petalostylis labicheoides commonly known as butterfly bush, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is an upright, rounded perennial with yellow to orange petals and grows in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales.
Petalostylis labicheoides is an upright, large, rounded shrub 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) high and branching from the base. The leaf rachis is 1.5–6 cm (0.59–2.36 in) long with usually 5-21 alternate leaflets, lance to elliptic shaped or oblong to oblong lance-shaped, 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) long, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) wide, occasional hairs and tapering to a point at the apex. The flowers have three upper and two lower yellow to orange egg-shaped petals, 20 mm (0.79 in) long with a reddish splotch in the centre. Flowering occurs mostly in spring and the fruit is a more or less a flattened, leathery, pod 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) long.[2][3]
