Diplolaena angustifolia
| Diplolaena angustifolia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Diplolaena |
| Species: | D. angustiflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Diplolaena angustiflora Hook. | |
Diplolaena angustiflora, commonly known as Yanchep rose, is a shrub which is endemic to the area around Perth in Western Australia. It has many small flowers with long bright stamens that are crowded in to heads surrounded by petal-like bracts, so that the whole resembles a many-stamened single flower.
Description and distribution
The Yanchep rose Diplolaena angustifolia, has pendant heads up to three or four centimetres across, surrounded by a series of bracts. Stamens up to 3 centimetres long, range in colour from orange to crimson. It is a winter-flowering shrub which grows to about a metre in height on sandy and limestone country around Perth.[1]
References
- ↑ Wildflowers of Western Australia by Barbara Mullins, Photography by Douglass Baglin, 1978, third printing in 1984. A Mulavon publication, ISBN 0 85899 032 6
External links
- http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2771047
- http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/4453
- http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2011/04/05/Kell/197e27.jpg
- http://riverinawildflowers.com.au/images/product/2011_0613flowershem0079.jpg
- http://www.stridvall.se/flowers/gallery/Diplolaena/755_10
- http://www.plantthis.com.au/plant-information.asp?gardener=12934
- http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:381850
- http://australianseed.com/persistent/catalogue_images/products/diplolaena-angustifolia.jpg
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