Petrophile carduacea Meisn.

Species

Angiosperms > Proteales > Proteaceae > Petrophile

Characteristics

Shrub to 1.3 m tall. Branchlets tomentose-pubescent or villous, with spreading hairs extending onto juvenile foliage, glabrescent. Leaves deeply toothed, 5-12 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, flattened, pungent, glabrous; teeth broadly triangular; lowest pair sometimes stipule-like; margin undulate. Inflorescence ±globose, axillary, pedunculate, c. 10 mm diam.; peduncle 10-15 mm long; involucral bracts few, triangular, acute, persisting, glabrous; cone scales broad, obtuse, glabrous. Flowers c. 8 mm long, yellow, silky-villous. Pollen presenter fusiform, c. 2 mm long, yellow, with sparse, reflexed hairs. Cones ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 20-35 mm long; peduncle to c. 10 mm long. Nuts c. 5 mm long, flattened, winged.
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Grows in scrub and heath; in gravelly soil and on sandplain.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

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Images

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Distribution

Petrophile carduacea world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705519-1
WFO ID wfo-0000483272
COL ID 776FX
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Synonyms

Petrophile carduacea