WorldFloraDB - Adenanthos pungens

Characteristics

Erect (to tall) or prostrate shrub, without lignotuber. Leaves densely sclerified, rigid, terete, to 30 mm long, 1-2 mm diam., simple or divided (if divided then with (2-) 3 segments), pungent. Flowers clustered at tips of branchlets. Perianth to 30 mm long, pale pink tinted with cream, or bright pink. Style c. 40 mm long, glabrous or with hairs near apex; ovary glabrous.

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Grows on rocky hillslopes in deep sand and on gypsum dunes.

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