Baeckea grandiflora

Baeckea grandiflora, commonly known as the large-flowered baeckea, is a common heathland shrub found in coastal central Western Australia.[1]

Baeckea grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Baeckea
Species:
B. grandiflora
Binomial name
Baeckea grandiflora

The erect, open to straggly shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 2 metres (2 to 7 ft) and has terete widely spaced leaves that are 5 to 10 millimetres (0.20 to 0.39 in) in length.[2] It blooms from August to December producing pink-white flowers[1] that have a diameter of 10 to 15 mm (0.39 to 0.59 in).[2]

It is often found on plains, undulating hills and breakaways in the Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region around the Shire of Gingin where i grows in gravelly loamy and sandy soils over laterite.[1]

The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1867 in the work Compositae Flora Australiensis[3]

See also

References
  1. "Baeckea grandiflora". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. Margaret G. Corrick; Bruce Alexander Fuhrer (2009). Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia. Rosenberg Publishing. p. 111. ISBN 9781877058844.
  3. "Baeckea grandiflora Benth". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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