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Lasiopetalum
''Lasiopetalum'', commonly known as velvet bushes, is a genus of about forty-five species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, all endemic to Australia. Description Most species of ''Lasiopetalum'' are spreading or prostrate, many-branched shrubs. Commonly known as velvet bushes, they derive their common name from the pubescent (finely-furred) nature of the stems, leaves and flowers. Their leaves are generally arranged alternately on the stems. The flowerheads are either axillary or terminal. The flowers are small, the five-lobed calyces are hairy and the petals tiny. The genus is allied to the genera ''Guichenotia'' and ''Thomasia''. The greatest diversity of species is in Western Australia, where 24 species are found, of which 8 are endemic to the region. Taxonomy The genus ''Lasiopetalum'' was first formally described in 1798 by James Edward Smith in ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London''. The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek word ''las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Behrii
''Lasiopetalum behrii'', commonly known as the pink velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with lance-shaped, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves and groups of white to pink and reddish-brown flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum behrii'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of high and has stiff lance-shaped, narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves long and wide on a petiole long. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is densely covered with woolly, rust-coloured hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to eight, each flower on a pedicel long with three hairy bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are white to pink, long and densely hairy on the back and the five petals are dark reddish-brown and long. Flowering occurs from July to October and the fruit is a densely hairy capsule long. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Baueri
''Lasiopetalum baueri'', commonly known as slender velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, greyish shrub with more or less linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves and groups of white or pink flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum baueri'' is a greyish, densely foliaged, spreading shrub high and wide, its new growth prominently covered with red-brown hair. The leaves are linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long, the margins flat or turned downwards. Hairy below, they become smooth above over time. The flowers are arranged in sometimes crowded groups of two to six with three bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long and usually pink or white with a green base, the outer surface densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The petals are less than long and the anthers are reddish-brown and about long. Flowering occurs from September to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Discolor
''Lasiopetalum discolor'', commonly known as coast velvet-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of southern Australia. It is an erect, spreading or sprawling shrub with hairy stems, oblong to egg-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum discolor'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of , its stems covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are broadly oblong to egg-shaped, long, wide and leathery, the lower surface covered with star-shaped hairs. The flowers are up to in diameter and arranged in pendulous heads of ten or more and are sessile or on a pedicel up to long. There are three linear bracteoles at the base of the sepals, the sepals long, pink or white and densely hairy on the back. The petals are reddish-brown, long and there are five stamens. Flowering occurs from June December and the fruit is in diameter. Taxonomy ''Lasiopetalum discolor'' was first formally des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Bracteatum
''Lasiopetalum bracteatum'', commonly known as Helena velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with egg-shaped leaves and loose groups pinkish flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum bracteatum'' is an erect, spreading shrub typically high and wide, its young stems covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped, the edges curved downwards, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The surfaces of the leaves are sparsely to densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in loose groups of 8 to 22 long, the peduncle hairy and long, each flower on a pedicel long with an elliptic bract long at the base. The sepals are bright pink to mauve-pink with a dark red base, long with lobes long and the five petals are about long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is an elliptic capsule long. Taxonomy This spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Drummondii
''Lasiopetalum drummondii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, slender shrub with many densely hairy stems, egg-shaped or oblong leaves and white, pink and red flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum drummondii'' is an erect, slender shrub that typically grows to a height of with its many stems with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped or oblong, long, wide on a petiole long, the lower surface densely covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups long with 13 to 31 flowers on hairy peduncles long, each flower on a pedicel long with narrowly egg-shaped bracts long at the base. There are up to three bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are long, pink and densely hairy on the back. The petals are red, long and the stamens have dark red anthers. Flowering occurs from May to November and the fruit is elliptic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Compactum
''Lasiopetalum compactum'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with leathery, narrowly oblong leaves and cymes of white to pinkish flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum compactum'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its branchlets covered with rust-coloured to grey, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are leathery, narrowly oblong, long and wide on a hairy petiole long. The upper surfaces of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface is covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs, the mid-rib prominent. The flowers are arranged in cymes of five to seven long, the peduncle long with linear bracts about long at the base and three linear bracteoles about long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are pink, densely covered with white, woolly star-shaped hairs on the back and long with five narrowly egg-shaped lobes. The petals are spatula-shaped, abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Adenotrichum
''Lasiopetalum adenotrichum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the Fitzgerald River National Park in the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy foliage, narrow egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and groups of white to cream-coloured and dark reddish-purple flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum adenotrichum'' is an erect shrub typically high and wide, its stems covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are narrow egg-shaped to lance-shaped, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The upper surface of the leaves has scattered, rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs and the lower surface is densely covered with mostly white star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of mostly four to seven on a hairy peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel up to long with a bract at the base. There are three further bracts mostly long at the base of the sepals, the sepals white to cream-coloured and hairy, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Angustifolium
''Lasiopetalum angustifolium'', commonly known as narrow leaved lasiopetalum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a low spreading or dense, compact shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves and compact groups of pink to purplish flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum angustifolium'' is spreading or dense, compact shrub typically high and wide, its young stems covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The lower surface of the leaves is covered with rust-coloured and white, star-shaped hairs and the edges of the leaves are turned downwards or rolled under. The flowers are arranged in compact groups of five to eighteen on a hairy peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long with an egg-shaped bract long at the base. There are three further bracts mostly long at the base of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Cardiophyllum
''Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves and groups of pinkish flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum'' is an erect shrub with many stems, that typically grows to a height of , its young stems covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped or triangular, long and wide on a hairy petiole long. The upper surfaces of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface is covered with woolly, grey, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of three to six long, the peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel about long with linear bracts about long at the base and a linear bracteole about long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are pink with a dark red base, about long with five egg-shaped lobes long and there are no petals. Flowering mostly occurs fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Dielsii
''Lasiopetalum dielsii'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with hairy stems, heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum dielsii'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of , its foliage covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are heart-shaped, long and wide. Each flower is borne on a pedicel long, the sepals pink or white, the petals reduced to small scales or lobes and there are five stamens. Flowering occurs in December. Taxonomy ''Lasiopetalum dielsii'' was first formally described in 1904 by Ernst Georg Pritzel in ''Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse''. The specific epithet (''dielsii'') honours Ludwig Diels. Distribution and habitat This lasiopetalum grows on steep slopes in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Cordifolium
''Lasiopetalum cordifolium'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy stems, heart-shaped leaves and pink, cream-coloured or white flowers. Description ''Lasiopetalum cordifolium'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of , its foliage covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are heart-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in cymes, each flower on a pedicel long with bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are pink, cream-coloured or white, covered with star-shaped hairs and long with lobes about half the length of the sepals. The petals are reduced to small scaled or lobes and there are five stamens. Flowering occurs from September to December. Taxonomy ''Lasiopetalum cordifolium'' was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher in '' Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Cenobium
''Lasiopetalum cenobium'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is only known from the type location, not having been collected since 1918. Description ''Lasiopetalum cenobium'' has stems densely covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped, long and wide on a woolly-hairy petiole long, the edges turned downwards. The upper surface of the leaves sparsely covered with white, star-shaped hairs and the lower surface densely covered with white and rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in loose groups of three to five, long, the peduncles hairy and long, each flower on a pedicel long with thread-like bracts about long at the base and three further thread-like bracts long near the base of the sepals. The sepals are pink with a dark red base, about long with five egg-shaped lobes about long, and there are no petals. Taxonomy ''Lasiopeta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
